[or-roots] to ditto or not to ditto
W David Samuelsen
dsam52 at sampubco.com
Sun Apr 8 18:17:36 PDT 2012
observe what is in the line just above. That's it. No dash above, no ditto.
Married or Single or Unknown (usually really blank) or Widowed, use zoom
in if necessary. It is not always crossed off and marked S because it is
"7" in Bureau coding.
I have one family, head is marked as crossed M and 7 written above, but
is he married, divorced, or widowed? It does not say.
I had another one, where it was crossed and "Wd" written above.
Anytime you see 7, ignore and use what was written before it was crossed.
There was a surname no one got right in one batch and I didn't get it
right either because in next batch it was spelled very clearly as
Steiner. The wrong ones? Steiver and Steimer. Duh!
There are some situtations, you can't win.
It's the researchers who are ones who can send in feedback. We can do
same when the indexes come out. Those Arbitration Results batches are
your sources.
David
On 4/8/2012 5:56 PM, Leslie Chapman wrote:
> That is just my point David, to me it is very clear the meaning of the looooooong dash is not ditto and I feel like it is confusing the process to repeat the line above, the record I am looking at now the line above was R, and there are four more R's directly above that, if he had meant an R, he would have entered one and since to enter data there is wrong it seem silly to me to say "all" dashes mean ditto. For some unknown reason this guy used a lot of space filling dashes on the page, at least that is how I would interpret the two dashes he put in column 24 and 25 under two lines of empty space, I am pretty sure ditto marks aren't necessary for empty space. I guess it really doesn't matter one way or the other since it is going to be obviously wrong to have someone residing somewhere 4 years before they were born so I will treat them as ditto marks if it will keep my score up.
> As to the "7" CC mentioned, she might want to look at it real close, I had one of those and after some study realized it was meant to be a S for single.
> Les
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> --- On Sun, 4/8/12, W David Samuelsen<dsam52 at sampubco.com> wrote:
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> From: W David Samuelsen<dsam52 at sampubco.com>
> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Another arbitration question
> To: "or-roots mail list"<or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> Date: Sunday, April 8, 2012, 1:53 PM
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> repeat what the above line says.
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> "If ditto marks or other signs of repetition were written in this field,
> type the information from the previous record." This would be very true
> if 5 years or older. I've seen some slipped past below 5 years old.
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> David
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