US—City Directories, 1902–1935 [Part B] [MQNW-4SQ]
I was discussing with a new indexer named Hansen that you should use the or if a name is listed with several spellings. ( I used several spellings of her name) I went to the previous images on this batch and saw that they are listed as Hansen or Hanson or Hansson. Should I list them as just Hansen or use the Hansen or Hanson or Hansson?
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You will indexed it as Hansen or Hanson or Hansson.
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If your batch is similar to this:
Then Hansen is the surname. The other names are not variants of these particular individuals' names. They are variants of a surname and suggests to the reader that they might look at the pages that contain the variants if they can’t find the name they want on the page they are looking at. We used to see the same thing on index cards.
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Looking at your batch, I agree with Barbara. You only index Hansen for the surname.
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