Index Location Page Identification

LegacyUser

Ronald Puma said: Finding the index is the critical first step in trying to find an ancestor's birth, marriage, or death record. When each event is listed for one year only, finding the index is easy (usually the last few pages). However, especially for Italian records, often years are combined into one link making finding the index slow and tedious. Sometimes, multiple towns are also combined in the one link covering multiple years. This is especially difficult to find the town and year desired. The best solution would be to give one one link for each town/event/ and year. The next best solution would be to give a simple to follow index to that information on the opening pages of a multiple year and/or multiple town link detailing the pages where each separate index can be found. This likely would not require a lot of effort comparatively speaking to creating the data originally for us to review.

LegacyUser

A van Helsdingen said: By "Index" I assume you mean a yearly alphabetical list of names that is at the back of each years records, not the Indexes you search in FamilySearch's search engine.

There have been multiple threads recently on this same basic topic: many digital microfilms consist of multiple places, record types, years etc that should be separated out to make consulting the records much easier.

https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...
https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...

I strongly agree that this would be useful. However FS's current priority is digitizing their entire microfilm collection. Once that is complete (I believe the latest date given for completion is 2020), they should look at improving the quality and usability of the digital microfilms.