City Directories - same name but different people. Index both?

Marliese Lloyd

In the City Directories I have people with the same name but they live different addresses, or have different jobs, etc. They are obviously different people but...reviewing, I see other indexers just index the name once. It makes sense if we are just doing it so someone can go to the original document and look closer. Is that what I should do or do I index them all since they are different people?

erutherford

From What To Remember About This Project under Project Instructions:

• Index each unique name. Some names may be duplicated. When names are exact duplicates, meaning that all required fields are the same, index only the first instance of the name listed. Skip the other exact duplicates, and then index the next unique name. Unique names include names with different middle initials and different name spellings or where the other required fields are different. 

This instruction prevents something like 34 "John Smith"s, even of the person lives at a different address or different occupation, etc. The researcher will be able to see the additional name(s) when they pull up the image.