US Cities Directories Place and Year
Is there a way to go back or forward more than 5 images to determine the place and year? I am not able to find that information in the Reference Images -5 to +5.
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No, but in the end, Family Search will add that information to the public index. They can go to the beginning.
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You can usually find the film and image number in "About Batch" (under Batch at the top left). You can then either look up the film in the Catalog, or just plug the number directly into the Catalog's film-viewer URL (https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/NNN, where NNN is the film number padded with leading zeros to nine digits).
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I don't think we're supposed to index from batches outside what we can see in our indexing batch (including reference images). The Field Helps are clear about using the reference images but not more. "About Batch" is given so we have the information given there, not so we can look up other parts of the film to use in our indexing batch. This could just delay publication. Most people aren't going to use that, so that someone reviewing the work of someone who did will mark those fields as incorrect, creating the need to go through another reviewer because the percentage of errors exceeds 20%. And it could happen inversely. An indexer who didn't look at the film so didn't index those fields, but the reviewer did look at the film and marked those fields as incorrect because the info wasn't there, would also make the batch have to go to another indexer. I think we should get official clarification on going back and using the film to index data not given in our batch images.
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In the projects I work on, the place is basically never indexed, but I still sometimes end up using "About Batch" to look up the film, because knowing the place can help decipher the rest of it. I suppose this is less of a consideration when indexing a printed source like a city directory, but it can still help to tell the businesses from their proprietors and such: if I just look at a page and see a bunch of Katonah-this and Katonah-that, I might be tempted to think there was a local family by that name; if I look up the film and see that this item is the Katonah City Directory, I'll make different decisions about what should be indexed.
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This is the most logical reasoning behind not using anything beyond the +5/-5 records, even if there wasn't a field help involved. If the DGS was used for this, or any other project, it would become a giant pain for everyone involved and if I'm recalling correctly, the last City Directory project took a couple of months to be completed without using DGS numbers.
With at least some of this project, it's locked an only accessible at the FS Library or an affiliate branch.
@Maile L, mod ruling on using the DGS for indexing?
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The batch is a small part of the whole which will have the same metadata. If the place or date isn't listed in the images you can access in the batch, just mark it as blank.
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