Index an index list?
Papua New Guinea—Civil Registration, 1892–1980 [Part C][MQL5-RZC]
This batch is an index of birth records. It lists the Volume number, birth number and child's names for a birth registry, but nothing else regarding the birth.
Do we index this list? Somewhere in the back of my brain I thought I read somewhere that we don't index these types of lists, but we mark them as NED. I can't find any reference to that 'rule' in the instructions, in the purple question marks nor in the community forum (I even did a search for this and came up with nothing).
Any and all help with this is much appreciated, as always!
Cemetery Tramp
Shared batch:
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/49d31856-a0d6-4e52-bd87-c4d346bb2ad9
Answers
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I know what you're talking about: normally, there are instructions about indexing indexes if they include both names and dates, but not if they have just names and reference numbers. In this project, they appear to have removed those directions; all it says is "Index records concerning a birth, marriage, or death registration."
Well, these are records concerning a birth, marriage, or death registration (although I cannot tell from the images which of the three they are). Thus, I expect they should be indexed.
(Note that image 2 is the same page as image 1, just with the top cut off instead of the bottom. I'm not sure how to handle indexing it: doing both in full would be a whole lot of repeats.)
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Julia -
Thank you. Yes, I did notice that the second page is almost the same as the first. I have seen this quite often. I will go ahead and index both, even though it is a lot of typing. I don't mind, I'm committed to indexing because one day I'm unknowingly going to help a fellow genealogist find a missing person, and another day, another indexer is going to unknowingly help me find my missing person! We're all in this together!
Have a nice weekend!
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