South Africa Colonial numbers

AnnEmery61

I've been indexing South Africa projects and am currently doing KwaZulu Natal records. Many of these records are for indentured sugar plantation workers from India. Many have only a single name (no last names), and data on birth records has only a parent's name. However, these records do have the colonial numbers of these people, and these may be a way to trace people very effectively. It appears that some of the colonial numbers represent parents, and that would be invaluable.

I'm thinking they should be included in the extracted data. Can this be done?

Dellory Matthews

The short answer is no. What is indexed and how it is indexed is specified in a contract between the record owner and Family Search. We can hope that our index brings people to the records and they will benefit from the information that we are not asked to extract.

"Indexing turns the records into searchable sources, allowing researchers to find and attach them to ancestors in their family tree in FamilySearch."

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/what-is-indexing