WikiProject:Secciónes de Uruguay

Purpose
Look inside the Uruguay Civil Registration images to find the municipalities and their correlating Sección numbers.

Task List
Task List

Set Up

 * You may need to add the FamilySearch Premium Content browser extension to view the records at a FamilySearch Center, Affiliate Library, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saint's Church Building.

1. Open the Task List and choose a department tab to work on.

2. Open (*) and click the link to the department you just chose on the spreadsheet.

3. Open Falling Rain and choose the matching department name.

4. Open Google to use to double check spelling.

5. Open BYU Script Tutorial to use when the handwriting is tricky.

Instructions
1. Once you are in and have chosen a department that matches the task list tab you are working in, you will need to start browsing the images. You can skip the ones in the beginning that say "Indice..." as those are for the whole country and not this specific department.

2. Start with the first set that says, "Sección 1" and click the camera icon. It should look something like this:



3. Open the first book on the roll by double clicking the image. You can tell when a new book begins because the cover page is mostly blank and just has the title. We will be reading the first entries of each book to find the municipality name and the Sección.




 * This example went on the spreadsheet as Sección 7 -Lavalleja

4. Some handwriting is easier or harder to read. Always double check what you think is written with either by using "Ctrl + F" on the Falling Rain department page or by googling "MUNICIPALITY, DEPARTMENT, Uruguay" to see if that locality exists or existed at some point. We mostly do this for a spell check.


 * If you are having a hard time reading a municipality, try to look on BYU Script Tutorial to see if it helps you out. If it doesn't, copy the link to the exact page you are looking at and put it on the spreadsheet for Caileigh to decipher. It's okay to skip if it takes you more than a few minutes to figure out.

5. Put what you found on the spreadsheet. Rule of thumb is to only put what you see in the records and not any outside information. (I.e. maybe the town name got changed from info you found in a google search.) We only want what the records say on the spreadsheet.

6. In each book check the municipality name and the sección number every time. You do not have to duplicate it on the sheet if you see the municipality with the same sección number times. Sometimes the same municipality will be in multiple secciónes, and we will want to keep track of which secciónes it belongs to.


 * Note: Some of the images you need to search through are grouped into "Items." You can tell if this is the case if the "Film" Column in the catalog looks like this:
 * This means that the records needed in "Sección 7. Matrimonios 1901-1930 Sección 8. Matrimonios 1881-1885 Sección 9. Matrimonios 1882-1885 Sección 10. Matrimonios 1880-1886" will only be found in items 1-5. Item numbers are found at the beginning and end of each digitized roll. The big number at the bottom right of the image is the item number. It looks like this:



Other Helpful Info

 * Sometimes the records will have numbers written out or in numerical form. Here's a comparison chart to help you decipher when it is written out.