Organize unindexed records. And vote on which to index next.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: It would be nice to organize unindexed images better.
For example, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619...

this link takes you to deaths 1806 - 1812, but the actual file contains marriages 1751-1795 first, then the deaths at the end of the file. That is very confusing when trying to find things. So organizing it by splitting that file up into marriages, and another one for deaths, would be better. (then combining files that need to be combined etc.)

Hope that makes sense. Also, it would be nice if people could suggest which images to get indexed in each country. Like have votes which records would be next to index for each country. Like I want to index and get other people to index church records of baptisms for the Netherlands, so I would vote for that to be indexed next.

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Tom Huber said: Welcome to the community support forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We patrons, having various levels of knowledge and experience do our best to help each other with concerns, issues. and/or questions.

The digitization of existing films has an option of submitting a request to digitize a specific film or film set by a patron.

This would be another candidate for requests from patrons on what they want to index.

I'm not active in indexing, but if I was, I would enter what I want to index from those "browse images" sets in the list of historical collections available for browsing (https://www.familysearch.org/search/c...)

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Tom Huber said: There are actually two concerns in this post and normally they should be posted in separate threads.

The second one involves splitting a collection by record type. This is now being done and hopefully someone from Family Search who organizes the records will pick up that the collection https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619... needs to have the catalog entries separated so that there is no confusion over finding the marriage records buried in that data set.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: Thank you for your quick reply! However, I don't see an option to choose a set to get indexed. Could you write down the steps? I would like to index and also have other people index "Netherlands, Overijssel Province, Church Records, 1542-1893".

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Juli said: That's a mislabeled waypoint, not a lack of organization.

I have had no useful reply to my various Support cases pointing out such errors. ("We have forwarded the information to our Engineers." This was two years ago, and the waypoints are still exactly as they were, labeled with the wrong town in the wrong county of the wrong modern country.)

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: I think it is both really. I wonder how it can be expedited...

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MaureenE said: I have not seen any documentation about asking for a digitised microfilm to be given priority to be indexed.

However, perhaps a similar procedure could be followed as for requests for microfilms to be digitised. The procedure for that request is

If you have a film you need that has not been digitised, (as shown by the fact that there is no DGS number), you can reach out to FamilySearch support to express your interest in having that particular film being prioritized earlier in the scanning process, through the "Help" or "Get Help" tab at the top right hand corner of the webpage, requesting the Historical Records Team.

Substitute your indexing request in the above paragraph, and substitute Indexing Team.

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Tom Huber said: While this applies to FHL books, patrons can use the same process to request that films be digitized. There was a discussion that dealt almost exclusively with upping the priority on a film that had not been digitized. I don't have the link to that.

Here is the article on the book digitization request: https://www.familysearch.org/ask/sale...

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Juli said: Here's the film-specific instructions: https://www.familysearch.org/ask/sale...

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: For the organization and mislabelled waypoints part of this post, I realized 4 years before this post, this post was posted. (https://getsatisfaction.com/familysea...) No changes of course.

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Robert Wren said: While you are waiting for FS action, may I suggest looking up the FS wiki covering the area with which you are concerned. Then request editing privileges and add an explanatory comment to others who might like to know.

The more wiki explanations, the better it will work for ALL users. As I recall you can even offer a comment on the catalog page to explain the situation.

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S. said: Robert Many of use find the wiki very unfriendly, many of us also find it hard to suggest which films which we the People are interested to have done, Yes, we understand it pressure to help everyone, yes we understand The church will get to them some time in the Future, how ever it would be really awesome if the church had a easy way for people to tell you guys what we all interested, in and why. Also You could take the highest of people that is interested and do them first or keep that info in mind, when you talk to the record holders and make the contracts with them to get them online for every one to use.