Talk:FamilySearch Indexing: US—Index to Passenger Lists at Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, 1820–1874, Project Updates

In the first batch I'm working on,found one card with the father's name and nine other family members. Do I index only the father, or should I create separate records for each family member?

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Were the other family members listed on the "Accompanied by" line? If so, you do not index them.

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Nationality Fields
Nationality examples and questions:

Expand abbreviatons of countries or nationalities. If it could go either way, we enter nationality (as I'm reading this). Therefore;

Ger = we type German (rather than Germany)

Germany = Germany

Gt Britain = Great Britain (not British)

Brit = British

Irish = Irish

Ire = Ireland (as it doesn't expand to Irish)

Fr = French

American = United States (about only one we can change)

Can = Canadian or Canada?

Eng = England or English (English is sometimes referred to as a nationality by it appears that British is preferred terminology.  English is not in the look-up list.  However, English is also a nationality in some circles.  Need clarification for Eng.

&lt;fck:hr&gt; Why would you index American as United States? Our nationality is referred to as American. &lt;/fck:hr&gt;&lt;/fck:hr&gt;

I understand most of that, but it makes no sense that American = United States, it clearly states to type the nationality of the passenger in the field help....it's pretty clear that American is a nationality (being an American myself) and it's not abbreviated.

Also I contacted Support &amp; was told if an abbr could be translated both ways (nationality or country) go with nationality...so Eng would be English &amp; Can would be Canadian...not England or Canada.