> Thanks for the information on indexing. I just registered as a new > indexer 3 days ago. I had no idea a "batch" had to be completed in > 7 days. I received no information on this anywhere in the info sent > to me. I just completed one batch but need to proof read it for any > mistakes I typed in. So guess I better get going. > > One question maybe you can help with. under ages some children are > recorded as being 2 years old and 4 months. Shown as 2 4/ 12. Is > this how you need to transcribe the age and months in the column as > 2 4/12 ?? > > Nancy <nposs1936@yahoo.com> Nancy, thank you so much for volunteering. Every project is different, so the only one who can answer your question (if it isn't in the project information) is the project coordinator (they call it Group Administrator). I'm indexing the 1930 Mexico census. For that project there is a separate column on the actual census sheet for age in years (anos) for adult and months (meses) or days (dias) for infants under one year. For the Mexico census there is only one column to insert the age, so I have to type the number plus a, m, or d. You're probably indexing one of the U.S. censuses, and each year has different instructions. If the instructions don't include this information, you need to contact your Group Administrator. I had a hard time finding out who to contact, but finally found it under Help > Support. There is no listing under Group Administrator. Instead it says to email World-Wide Support: indexing@familysearch.org. My instructions for the 1930 Mexico census say to contact your stake extraction director if you're a member of the LDS church. Maybe that's true for other projects, too. When I first started indexing over a year ago, I made several suggestions that I don't remember any more. I think one of them was to state that a batch will be returned for someone else to work on if you don't finish it in 7 days. Anyway I think you should let them know anything you're not clear about so maybe they can clarify it in future instructions. A couple of things I forgot to mention for those who are not sure if they want to help is that there is a tutorial to help you get started, you download a program in which you do the indexing, a lot of the fields are filled in automatically for you as you tab through them, and some of the surnames, locations names, etc., use autocomplete so you only need to type 2-3 characters in certain fields. It really is a lot easier than doing your own census transcriptions. And they have other types of records that also need indexing. Laurie Nelson "Laurie Nelson" <lanenelson1@msn.com>