SEXTON RECORDS
I have been doing Georgia sexton records, and I have the following questions?
Sexton name is given, do you say match or not a person.
Gives a vault name where the person is located. Match or not a person.
I know these are individua's names but did not know to match or not since it was not the person that had died.
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It doesn't matter whether the name is for the main person the record is about or not. If it is a person's name, mark it a Match. If it is not a person's name, mark it not a person.
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@Ashlee C. Aren't we supposed to take into consideration the type of document when doing Name Reviews? Example: Sexton , yes it could be a name of a person, a place or a thing. I saw Sexton as the name of a mining claim ie Sexton, Sexton @2 etc. Sexton could also be a title; ie a gravedigger or a person who looks after a church/chapel. Just my opinion, it matters😎
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Maybe I misunderstand the question. The purpose of both Quick Name Review and Full Name Review seems to be to find the names of individuals. So if Sexton is the name of the person, it should definitely be marked a person and the name reviewed.
If the sexton is the name of a place or a thing, it should not be reviewed.
If you are using Full Name Review (not Quick Name Review because that deals only with names, not titles) and Sexton is considered a title, followed by the name of the person, then it should be reviewed with the name of the person. But if the document is referring only to "the Sexton," but no name involved, how would we determine who the sexton was? How would someone find the record once it is made searchable?
I'll ask the engineers if we are supposed to review names if they are only titles and get back to you with their answer.
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@Ashlee C. Do you anticipate that a further level of review will be required once AI has produced draft metadata from the full text transcription that the Quick and Full name reviews are helping with?
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@MandyShaw1 It is my understanding that the names only need to go through Quick and Full Name Review to be searchable.
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Thanks @Ashlee C., but in that case how will the dates, places, relationships, and other metadata (occupations etc.) be reviewed, or the split of an image into multiple records, e.g. on directories or censuses? I have read a lot of blog entries and research wiki stuff about FS computer aided indexing, as you suggested previously, but I still don't understand how this all hangs together.
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I think I remember the engineers saying most of these names will end up in Full Text Search or something similar. So the "indexing" will look different than it used to. But I'm not entirely sure of that so I will ask the engineers for clarification.
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Thank you @Ashlee C., that would be really helpful.
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