[or-roots] Volunteer Indexing on 1940 census - names

[W David Samuelsen]

On 4/7/2012 8:29 AM, Denise Sproed wrote:
> I was doing as Les mentioned on questionable names – I had one that clearly looked like Watler.  I looked him up a pinch and he was listed in a city directory as Watler so I felt it was correct but it still highlighted it in pink like I made a mistake.

The common ons will not get pinked. Uncommon ones will. You know the 
spelling as found, click to accept, the arbitrator will act upon it if A 
and B don't agree.

> Another was a complex name – I found him on find-a-grave and my hunch matched the tombstone.  Most the spelling questions have been for counties that aren’t clear but so far I’ve found them easily on a map.

Check other sites and resources if you couldn't determine. Towns and 
counties must be spelled correct per instructions, even going to the 
GNIS (google GNIS and it comes up first no matter what)


> Glad Oregon is making such good progress in 1 week.  Question:  Will the index be put FamilySearch when the state is completed or will they be waiting for more states to be completed?

We're falling behind!!!

Oregon went from 30 to 35 percent while Kansas went from 35 to 
staggering 65 in one day.

Each state go online upon completion and setup is complete by engineers. 
The site get updated once a week. Delaware is on the next update as I 
understand it to be.

Am not seeing any batch to be arbitrated this morning. Lots last night.

Tell the volunteers not to make any mistakes, and it go faster.

David
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