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

Project Revisions
Q. How to index adoptive parents?

A. For the US, Iowa - County Birhs 1880-1935 project. A. Please add a record and index both sets of 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, index the parents’ information with the child’s information. Mark the image with the parents as No Extractible Data. If you have a batch with only the parents’ information, do not index the child’s information with your batch. Mark it as No Extractible Data. The indexer who indexed the child’s information will already have the parents' information recorded.

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.