[or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census

[Chris Havnar]

Thank you for your response - I input Eire Ireland / Free Ireland and a
city, no county, state
But I'm attempting to spell everything correctly- even if.....

FYI - when I got my latest batch - Oregon popped up as highest priority -
edging out Kansas ...

Thanks,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of W David
Samuelsen
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 11:17 PM
To: or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Subject: Re: [or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census

you won't hear from any arbitrator because there's no way to know who did
that. You can use feedback for the record.

I had one entry saying Eire Ireland and I enter that whole thing. If it says
Free Ireland, just do that. Don't deviate from that.

If the space for county is blank, leave it blank.  FS has a way of
connecting of these places. Just make sure spelling is correct no matter
what it says. Rule is very clear in instruction, spell it out correct, no
mis-spellings accepted.


David

On 4/7/2012 12:00 AM, Chris Havnar wrote:
> David,
>
> Weekend transcriber here - Question Ireland
>
> Erie Ireland, Free Ireland - were either of those entries correct - or 
> will I be hearing from my arbitrator ?
>
> I have been making massive use of Wikipedia to correct spellings and 
> verifying counties - but a question - if the census listed a city and 
> a state - and I know the county - should I have filed in that item?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Chris
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