City Directory Indexing

susankaynelsen1

i'm indexing Batch MQP7-7771. Do I skip the names listed in the first and second entries on the first page because they are businesses? On the second page about halfway down there is an entry "Nyborg, Julia (wid Ole). Should I enter Ole as the spouse?

erutherford

Businesses, and the people listed within that business, are not indexed. The people with the business listing will have their own entry elsewhere in the directory.

Ole will not be indexed. Spouses are indexed only if it is like this: Nyborg, Julia (Ole) or Nyborg, Julia, Ole.

stephenmartin3

I understand the widow / dead spouse issue but to be clear, when indexing a city directory, PI states that when a person has a spouse listed the Surname must be included in both names … easy enough … but I'm seeing that many are doing a separate listing for that listed spouse … as we do with the mortgages. This is not correct, is it ?

example - Jacobs Henry R (wf Martha)

Surname Prefix Given Name Spouse Surname Spouse Prefix Spouse Given Name

Jacobs <Blank> Henry R Jacobs <Blank> Martha

Jacobs Mrs Martha Jacobs >Blank> Henry R

That doesn't make sense to me … all it does is repeat the same information but doubles the index.

Cemetery Tramp

In your example, the second line you have shown should NOT be it's own record unless Martha is listed by herself further down the line.

The first line you have shown is the correct information for one record. The way I think of indexing directories is ONE record of the index for ONE line in the directory, excluding businesses and deceased persons.

I hope this helps you. Have a great weekend, and happy indexing!

Cemetery Tramp

erutherford

This goes back to not reading the PI, not fully reading the PI, or not caring at all, emphasizing quantity of quality. We can report malicious indexing here, with the batch number in the title/comment, but use this sparingly. Malicious indexing usually falls under having a bunch of nonsense, like YETJTJJTJJ in the fields.

AnthonyHopkins5

Ok, by the rules the same name should not be indexed twice. However, I see many people indexing the same name twice if one of the names has a spouse. Which is right?

Julia Szent-Györgyi

You index it if the resulting entry will be different. If the spouse is different, then you index it, because spouse is one of the indexing fields. If the address is the only difference, then you don't index it, because address is not one of the fields.