[or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census

[W David Samuelsen]

If surname is not known, it is blanked.

OSF in title column

I know these ones aren't in instructions at all. I will take it up with 
higherups.

Under no circumstances column B is to be used. That's house numbers. 
Column 3 is Order of visits, and this is the one we want.

In surname list what's on the page. If it says St. Ores, list it as St Ores.

Les, I think I got one of your pages (they're Klamath Falls)

David


David

On 4/7/2012 9:04 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> Barb;
> I royally screwed up the colum three numbers on my first three pages; should have checked out arbitration before I submitted page two darnit. but the general rule is anything not serial numbers should be left blank ie ctrl B or the little x in a cloud on the tool bar. I had one that was numbered 109 1/2 so I entered it 109.5 and the arbitrator made it 109. that left two households with that number, didn't seem like the right answer to me but whatever.
> I have another question for Dave though while we are bugging him;
> Sister Derwa  O S F [not sure of last character; I just left O S F out, left surname blank and put sister under title but not sure that was right way to do it. I know we are supposed to put it all in but where the heck does O S F belong and is that Order of St. Francis. Speaking of that some times you are supposed to spell out Saint and sometimes not, what's up with that??
> just getting ready to submit my tenth page, not setting the world on fire, but my first page today was only marginally legible, interesting that arbitrator didn't ding me for much, I think one or two surnames and I was wrong on both of them.
> Les
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> --- On Sat, 4/7/12, barbc<barbc at bmi.net>  wrote:
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> From: barbc<barbc at bmi.net>
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census
> To: "or-roots mail list"<or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012, 2:46 PM
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> Mr Arbitrator, I have a question. I've just run across two different pages where there is a "T" in column 3. The first one showed T1, T2, etc. and the second one has just a T all the way down column. I sent the first one back because I don't want my average to go way down.
> Thanks for the help.
> Barb
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