South African Indexing

LegacyUser

Alettie Sutherland said: Hi, could you please make some South African projects available for transcription. I've been trying a while now to find any without success. I love your website it has helped me immensely. Regards, Alettie

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MaureenE said: Do you have any particular microfilms from the FamilySearch catalogue you would like to offer to index? If so, you could try contacting the Index Team through Help at the right hand top of this webpage.

However, I have never seen any link from FamilySearch which sets out the correct procedure, so I have no idea if the above will bring you any results. My suggestion is somewhat in line with the procedure required in "Requesting that FamilySearch digitize (scan) a microfilm" https://www.familysearch.org/ask/sale...

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A van Helsdingen said: There are some active South African indexing Projects:

Suid-Afrika—Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk Doop en Ledenadministrasie, 1838–1991 [Part C]

South Africa, Orange Free State—Master of the Supreme Court Probates, 1832–1989

South Africa, Transvaal—Civil Registration, Deaths, 1869–1954 [Part B]

South Africa, KwaZulu Natal—Passenger Lists, 1860–1911 [Part A]

South Africa—Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, Baptism and Membership Records, 1838–1991 [Part B]

South Africa, Cape Province- Civil Deaths, 1895-1972

LegacyUser

Alettie Sutherland said: I will have a look, thank you. It's just that when I click on the Africa content picture, I get a result that there are no projects available. Would you mind if I ask you to send me a link if I do not find the above?

LegacyUser

A van Helsdingen said: If you go to "Find batches" and filter on English or search for "South Africa" you will find them.

I noticed, as you said, that when you go to "Find a project" it says that there are 0 African projects. If there are any FS staff reading this, then please fix this.

sharonjennings2

I have discovered a collection that has been indexed incorrectly.

The place name is in the wrong location.

For example is would be the equivalent of Salt Lake City, Texas instead of Salt Lake City, Utah.

There are over 9000 entries and they are currently not able to be edited on the site.

What can I do to report this and/or have it corrected?

I can't imagine having to correct each one individually!!