Message Boards Update
We have been very excited to see the activity and interaction on the World Archives general message board. In hopes of making the message boards more approachable, and a place where more focused discussions can occur, we have created four new message boards covering the main types of records that we are currently working on; Naturalization Indexes, Census Records, International Projects – English Language, and International Projects – Other Languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, …).
The message boards are a great place to discuss questions, share stories you have found, and to network with other contributors. We appreciate your contributions and willingness to help each other through the keying process – we have found many great posts and have learned a lot (what could be better, where you are having difficulties, what changes you would like made, etc.) from reading the message boards and we hope you do too. Enjoy the new message boards!
Have enjoyed helping with the NY Naturalization Indexes. However, either it wasn’t clear in the instructions, or I just missed it, but several questions have arisen but I have worked through them but wanted to post to see if I am on the right track. Also, others may have the same question:
1. Name Change. When a card shows the name of the individual and then you see something like (See and then another name) that is spelled similarly, is that technically a name change? Since it didn’t say “Name Change to: or “Change name”, I have been going to the next line after entering the data and inputting that other name and then marking the date fields as blank. That is not using the name change entry form. Hopefully, this is correct.
2. Sometimes you wll see 2 dates on a card. Not sure why 2 but the dates are obviously important. For several 100 cards, whenever I encountered the 2 dates, I just omitted the 2nd date. However, it dawned on me that I could go to the 2nd line. Mark the name fields as blank on that 2nd line and then input the 2nd date. Is this correct?
If the above isn’t correct, then maybe my entries can be corrected during the comparison process. Thank you for any insight you can offer.
Ed Ratliff