New Project! Citizenship Case Files of the U.S. Court in Indian Territory


UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who responded as willing to participate in this project!  We have an overwhelming response and the project is now complete.

We have a new project but due to the nature of the project I want to tell you a little about it before we release it for keying.

The Citizenship Case Files of the U.S. Court in Indian Territory consist of an index of case files along with the case files and the supporting documents.  We are only keying the index and the numbers from the case folders – in this way we can connect the name and the case files together.  We have decided not to key the supporting documents due to the variety, and inconsistency between cases – all supporting documents will be marked as Cover page form types.   The files contain as few as 1-2 pages and as many as 380 pages so in order to capture the folder numbers contributors could be going through many image sets marking images as Cover pages.   But then you may also encounter the index and keying hundreds of names.

As you can tell this is a different type of project for us to tackle and as such we are asking who would be interested in working on this project.  If you are interested please send us an email to worldarchivesproject@ancestry.com.

 

 

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Written by:
Allen
Posted on:
June 11, 2012 at 2:35 pm

I’m not seeing the project. 🙁

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Written by:
Mary Buerge
Posted on:
June 11, 2012 at 4:54 pm

I would be willing to work on the citizenship files project of June 11th.

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Laura
Posted on:
June 11, 2012 at 5:16 pm

Apparently from what is written in the blog, this project will NOT be shown in the keying software. You need to EMAIL them at the address given in the blog if you are interested in participating.

Sounds interesting, but I think I will stick with the 100s of thousands image sets already in need of indexing and reviewing. This project seems a bit more complicated. 🙂

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Laura
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June 11, 2012 at 5:21 pm

Amending previous comment. This is not in keying software yet.

I know there is/was another project where many of the images are considered cover pages. I can’t remember which one at the moment, I think one of the military projects, but I could be wrong. Seeing as this project is mostly cover pages, as long as the keyers do it correctly, it should go pretty fast.

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Karen
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June 12, 2012 at 12:21 am

@Laura – this projects sets are mostly cover pages. There are few folder #’s to key, but many indexes. But you do go through sets and sets of just cover pages. It’s calming to me to do, but some people like stats.

Karen

If you are interested you will have to email WAP as it is hidden to the other keyers.

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Written by:
afechter
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June 12, 2012 at 12:28 am

Due to the lack of keying I wasn’t sure how this project would be received. Like Karen I don’t mind marking many, many pages as cover pages and not keying anything – so long as the image sets are large enough. With 10 images in an image set whomever does get the index pages will be keying for a while!

Allen, Mary – I am happy to add you to the group. Send a note to worldarchivesproject@ancestry.com or post your username here.

Happy form classifying!

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Written by:
DAYUH
Posted on:
June 12, 2012 at 5:47 am

I would help with this project. It sounds interesting.

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Becky
Posted on:
June 12, 2012 at 10:30 am

I’m in

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Written by:
Sharon
Posted on:
June 12, 2012 at 4:27 pm

I would like to help on this project.

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Written by:
Dawn
Posted on:
June 13, 2012 at 7:42 am

I would be interested in helping on this project. It sounds intrigueing! Hope there is still some keying left to do!

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patricia crawford
Posted on:
June 13, 2012 at 9:25 am

I will help and the address in the blog did not work for me.
pat

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Vivian Ney
Posted on:
June 13, 2012 at 10:05 am

I am interested in heping with the keying of the ” Case File of the US Courtsin the Indian Territories.”
I am currently a keyer on the genweb world history projects. Native Americian history is of particular intrest to me.

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Written by:
Kellyann St Jacque
Posted on:
June 13, 2012 at 6:41 pm

I’d like to help

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Patricia Capps
Posted on:
June 14, 2012 at 7:36 pm

I like to work on this project.

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Written by:
Sue Walton
Posted on:
June 14, 2012 at 9:00 pm

Sounds interesting, would give it a go.

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Written by:
Billie
Posted on:
June 15, 2012 at 8:26 am

Would like to try it

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Written by:
Jim Johnson
Posted on:
June 15, 2012 at 9:37 pm

I would like to help on the Citizenship Case Files of the U.S. Court in Indian Territory.

I”m suppose to have some Native Americans in my family tree but have been unable to find them. Maybe this will help me locate some of my ancestors!

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Written by:
Gail Tubbs
Posted on:
June 17, 2012 at 6:36 am

I did send an e-mail saying that I wanted to help and I have yet to recieve a reply or any information about keying the project. What gives?
Gail

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Written by:
robin
Posted on:
June 18, 2012 at 10:28 am

I would love to help! I have nothing but time to go slow and accurately enter.

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Written by:
paulmd199
Posted on:
June 18, 2012 at 5:23 pm

According to the project page its already about 99% done!

So its probly too late to join.

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Written by:
Trish
Posted on:
June 20, 2012 at 11:56 am

I would like to help with this project please.

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Written by:
dawn14227
Posted on:
June 24, 2012 at 12:17 pm

I’m interested

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Written by:
Trish
Posted on:
June 25, 2012 at 11:23 am

I signed up for this project but I haven’t heard anything back! I would love to help.