Beverly Cantrill
I am reviewing church records from South Africa. Sometime I find that the indexer has indexed records as church records when they are in fact baptisms. To correct this I am in fact reindexing the records since when I change the type of record the whole thing disappears. I feel like after I do this someone should be reviewing my wor
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Not to worry. If you're changing everything, it will be reviewed. When a reviewer (you in this case) changes over 20% of fields, it automatically goes to another reviewer to review your changes, but to him it will look like just another batch he's reviewing.
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There is another option available. I've only used it a few times, so I stress using it with discretion.
When you are reviewing, and you are constantly changing fields, like you have run into a malicious indexer (it does happen, but very infrequently) or you're finding that in a batch of 35 entries, you're correcting, say 75% of the batch and you're only on entry 15, you can return the batch for reindexing.
To do this, click on Batch, which is located on the upper left hand side of your screen, then click on Reindex Batch. This dialog box will appear.
The default setting is "Keep the indexed data." You don't want to pass the headache on. Make sure that you choose "Delete the indexed data." and click "Return batch for Reindexing." This way, someone can pick up the batch "brand new" and index it baptisms.
Again, I stress using this with discretion. Those times where you want to throw your computer out the window because the indexer messed up pretty bad, like what you're describing, and not for when you have to change one or two things, like 1866 to 1876 or Smith to Smyth.
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