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Why do some of the Indexed materials not have documents attached to them. All there is information about the person.
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@DavidKeck777 Your question is not clear without a batch number and what type of document you are indexing. There should be a title to the Batch.
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I don't think David is asking about how to index.
@DavidKeck777 Many record sets only have the index information available on FamilySearch because of the contract with the record holder - the city, state, country, church that created the record.
Some record images can be viewed only at a FamilySearch Center or Affiliate Library.
If you will share a specific record index, we can better help you know where you might be able to see it or why it may be restricted to view only in some locations.
Hope this helps.
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Some of the indexed materials have no documents attached because they were indexed in the 1970s to 1990s or maybe even in the early 2000s when there were no digital images. Just microfilms or paper copies of microfilms. FamilySearch has been doing indexing for a long time and digital images of these records are a relatively new phenomena.
In order to attach the currently available digital images to their old indexes basically would take re-indexing entire sets of records. Some record collections are getting around this by linking all the indexed records in the set to the first frame of the microfilm they came from. These have a message along the lines of "this record is found somewhere here but you will need to search for it."
For the records that do not even have that message, to find the image you copy the microfilm number found with the indexed information, enter that number in the catalog search, go to the digitized copy of the film if available on line, then search that film for the record the index points to. This is similar, but easier, to the days when you would have had to use the index to determine which microfilm the record was on, order the microfilm, wait for it to be delivered to your local family history library, go the the library, pull out the microfilm reel, thread it on the microfilm reader, start winding the film (that part often made me seasick if I went too fast) until you got to the section you needed, then go frame by frame to find the record.
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