Talk:FamilySearch Indexing: Canada—1881 Census, Additional Helps

Occupation - Horizontal Line
Need guidance on what to do with the entry for a horizontal line in the Occupation field. Does this count as a ditto mark or not?

For example, the father has "Farmer" listed and all other family members list a horizontal line. Do I (A) record "Farmer" for the whole family or (B) record "Farmer" for solely the father and put "blank" for all other family members?
 * Hello, fellow indexer! Thank you for helping to make records available to all researchers!   At times, it can be difficult to determine the information to index on historical records.  The best practice for this situation (and similar ones), would be to mark their occupations as {blank], or CTRL + 'B'.  Unless the recorder or enumerator used known abbreviations (such as, "do." or / ), the information is up for interpretation. So, marking the field as blank, not only reduces any possible incorrect information from being indexed, it prevents anyone who may use that record from passing on that (possibly) incorrect info.  I hope this helps to solve your dilemma! A Cobler06 (talk) 21:38, 17 December 2019 (MST)