Talk:FamilySearch Indexing: US, Iowa-County Births, 1880-1935

Project Revisions
Q. How do I index adoptive parents?

A. For this project (the US, Iowa—County Births, 1880–1935 project), first, index the birth parents; then, add a record, and index the adoptive parents. (See Knowledge Document 101228—How to add indexing lines [records] in a batch.)

Q. What do I do when parents and children are not on the same image?

A. When parents and children are on separate images, and you have the image with information about one or both parents but not about the children, do not index the record. Mark it as a No Extractable Data Image. The volunteer who indexes the image with the children's information will also include the parents' information.

If the image you are indexing contains the children's information, but not information about one or both parents, then do the following:


 * 1) On the menu bar, click View.
 * 2) Click Show Previous/Next Image. The previous or next image will be the image you see on the right side of the double screen.
 * 3) Make sure you click the Next Image button (otherwise you will be looking at the previous image, which will typically have information for a different set of parents).
 * 4) Type the information about the parents that is on the next image. The data to be indexed from the next image will typically be the names of the mother or the father or both.
 * 5) Return to normal view by click View on the menu bar and then Show Previous/Next Image.
 * 6) If the next image (with the parent information but not the child information) is also in your bathc, mark it as No Extractable Data Image in the Image Type field.

Q. How do I index an overlay?

A. An overlay is a document that covers a portion of the original record. Index as much information as you can gather from the record'''. Project Revisions and Reminders Common Indexing Mistakes Being Made in This Project: '''These are common indexing mistakes being made on this project:

On birth registers, indexing records that are partially covered by overlays. Index complete records only. The project-specific instructions have details on how the images with overlays are to be handled.

Not indexing the overlays first, or not indexing them at all.

Not indexing the certificate number found in the column on the far right of some birth registers.

Your findings and suggestions:
Some batches that have overlays did not have those overlays removed on either the previous or next image when photographed. This made it so that there is not a complete line of data on either image, which means, that the information would not get indexed.

Please check and see if there is complete information for the child, which would include name, gender, date of birth, place of birth and parents names by looking at the other images.

If on your batch, the child's information is covered and on the next batch the parents information is covered, then it will require that you treat this like a two image batch (read project instructions)  by indexing from the previous/next image.

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I am sharing a shot I took of the Iowa Births. Up at the top it has Place of Birth and then it lists 1-6. As you can see 2 is township, 3 is Village or City. If both 2 and 3 are filled in, the City is what we should put in. On these two it should be indexed as Castle Grove Township and Cass Township. You know from the key above that line two is township, so please type in township. Also if you ever see township after a name, on other forms, please type in "township" after the name.