match records better with info options

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Jana Lee Jenkins said: I have indexed records which have a lot of info like parent's names etc and there are no options to type them into. I have also indexed records which have little information and there are lots of options to fill in. The options to fill in need to really match the record. there ought to be a way to take out unnecessary options or to add options. We are not serving the families searching for their families if we can not add info. There could be a notes page to add or explain things on the record. The birth certificates I did yesterday did not have any option for adoptive parents or where and when they were adopted. yet there was that info written across the top

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Cindy Hecker said: Indexing is not transcribing a document, it is getting the most important details typed so that the record can be searchable in the database.

As for the extra indexing fields I recently learned in a FamilySearch Facebook live event (about 3-4 week ago you can check their Facebook page for the video) that you can remove the indexing fields that are not needed. Try watching the video because that was new information to me. The FB live topic was on indexing.

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Paul said: There was another topic raised in the last couple of days on a similar theme. Surely the more detail added (especially parents, where shown) the less chance of the individual being confused (and possibly merged) with an ID of someone of similar identity.

Does this relate to any recent policy decision about the amount of detail that should be recorded from the original record? If not, it appears that project instructions are subject to much inconsistency - e.g some saying index the parents, but others saying they should be omitted.