Ohio Naturalization Records - Part A
The instructions for this project are so confusing!! Why change them from so many similar projects??
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Simply put: it's what the record owners want. If the record owners want something different, then we just have to roll with it. The same PI was with the Illinois Nat project that was pulled a few weeks ago.
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Thanks. I predict that this one will be pulled as well.
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Based on looking at the examples, it would seem this project would want to combine/add the information from those other documents (not including declaration of intention, name change and oath of allegiance records) into the keying for the Petition for Naturalization document.
And with the instructions saying to key the info into the first image of the batch, I do see some issues.
Namely if the first image is an Oath of Allegiance and the 2nd is the Petition for Naturalization, with each document a different person. Or even the possible example of Declaration of Intention as 1st image and Petition as 2nd image. That is a lot of switching between pages to get the Petition into the 1st image of the batch.
Those are just a few of the issues I can see w/o looking at it more in length. I sure do hope that the PI will get clarified more!
Also these image examples for this particular Petition that spans 4 images ones used with the Petition really don't do much for keying additional info. Other than after all those documents, one can get the sex of the person. Of course the given and/or surname might change over those documents, but that appears to be about it.
And of course example used for the Petition for naturalization has the spouse's birthplace as "Cleveland, Ohio", when it should be "Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America".
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If the DEC and PET are for the same person, you combine them and use the record number and date of the PET if both the DEC and PET are on the same image and can be index (the top-most record) as such.
The examples of the Deposition are there so indexers know where to find the info on the other pages, just like a 2-page PET is an example for people to find the record date of the PET, which is located on the back side (page 2) in post-1940 PETs. There have been maybe three Nat projects (including this one) where depositions were indexed, and giving all of the information is what the PI writers have done. The PI is also stipulated (partly) by the record holders and the folks who write the PI are bound by that, just like us indexers are bound by the PI.
And there is no example of the PET. If you are speaking about the DEC, you type what you see, which is Ashtabula, Ohio. You do not add anything, even if you think it should be something else.
The Ohio record holders want more info, just like the Pennsylvania record holders want more info. New(er) indexers or indexers that aren't used to this much indexing in Nat projects can always ask.2 -
Please do not talk down to me.
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I hope it's not, but then again, I like doing Nat projects and I'm a huge history nerd 😄
But it might. I'm not sure why this project wants everything, and I understand that it's a lot of information to go through. If that's what they want, then that's what they want, sort of like why the NY Nat projects want the record place when no other Nat project wants that info.1 -
There is an example of a PET, however, it is part of the Deposition (you know, that whole troublesome combining of records thing) and the spouse's birthplace is Cleveland, Ohio, not Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. United States of America is not on part of the birthplace. If it's not there, you do not add it. It has been this way since I started indexing in 2014 at the very least.
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