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Update:  We experienced some difficulties after publishing this project.  In correcting these issues many of the completed image sets were returned to the queue.  We apologize for the results of this error – your quality may have decreased, and we lost the time and efforts that had been contributed.  We assure you that we will not have a similar error made with future projects and appreciate your understanding of this issue.  Thank you for all that you contribute to the World Archives Project!

This week our new project is the Oregon, Biographical and Other Index Card File.  We will be indexing data from index cards with a variety of information on them – sometimes there will be a lot of information, such as on the Pioneer cards and others will have only a name to key.  The majority of the records are typed and not very name dense so this is an “Easy” project.

If you have questions or feedback please post a message on the Discussion page or this message board thread.

Happy keying!

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Comment Number:
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Written by:
Mary Buerge
Posted on:
January 30, 2014 at 6:47 pm

The directions for Spouse are misleading because “by his Wife” refers to the primary person’s mother. His spouse is at the end of the article.

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Written by:
Stanton Bloom
Posted on:
January 31, 2014 at 4:18 pm

I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to view the wiki for this project.

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Written by:
afechter
Posted on:
February 2, 2014 at 11:53 pm

Stanton,
I am not sure what would be prohibiting you from viewing the wiki. Here is a direct link,
http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=World_Archives_Project:_Oregon,_Biographical_and_Other_Index_Card_File

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Written by:
Collier Smith
Posted on:
February 3, 2014 at 12:44 pm

Re: Bloom: Sometimes you need to clear your browser cache (or force a page re-load) to load a given web page.

Re: Anna’s paragraph following the Update:
I have found several cards handwritten; they are not all typed.

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Written by:
Collier Smith
Posted on:
February 3, 2014 at 12:48 pm

With an average of one name per 2 images (counting all the blank sides), this is not a project for those hungry for high volume output.

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Written by:
Mary Vance
Posted on:
February 3, 2014 at 5:29 pm

I LOVED

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Written by:
Mary Vance
Posted on:
February 3, 2014 at 5:32 pm

Oops! Sorry! I hit the wrong button! I loved doing the New Zealand Area Directories! Wasn’t there supposed to be a part 4 coming up, or did I miss it? I index almost every day, and I keep hoping it will show up! Thanks for the chance to do indexing. It is lots of fun!!

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Written by:
Laura Johnston
Posted on:
February 3, 2014 at 10:50 pm

I have 3 image sets that won’t upload after keying. I suspect that they are part of the problem sets. Do they need to be returned by cancelling the image sets?