City Directory Indexing
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?
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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.1 -
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.
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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
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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.
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