<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I assumed on the Canada-English thing that I should just drop the English, it bothers me a little too to copy information that is clearly wrong, but if thems the rules we play by I guess I will play by the rules. I know the theory is we can't "know" when something is wrong, but I am pretty sure that the two females I had listed as Head and wife today were probably supposed to be a male and a female. I was suspicious of the daughter named Arthur yesterday, but that was one I clearly see the wisdom of not second guessing, people do do strange things. having a daughter and son-in-law of a couple in their late seventies followed by three of the old couples "children" ages 2 to 5 kind seemed wrong, but I guess that one is too obvious to need to be changed. Maybe that's why we aren't allowed to pick, I am pretty sure if I had been indexing 1880 Gardiner I would
have tried to slip the correct spelling of my great grand father past arbitration instead of leaving it so badly scrambled I had to scroll the pages to find them.<div><br></div><div>Les<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 4/6/12, W David Samuelsen <i><dsam52@sampubco.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: W David Samuelsen <dsam52@sampubco.com><br>Subject: [or-roots] common mistakes indexing 1940 census<br>To: "Or-Roots" <or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us><br>Date: Friday, April 6, 2012, 10:23 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">1. Column 3 for Household visitation (do not use Column 2)<br>2. Race is spelled out, no abbreviations (White, Black, Japanese, etc)<br>3. fail to use Zoom plus button to verify spellings<br>4. R means just that.<br>5. Do not enter "Ab", it means absent from household<br>6. Do not forget middle initials. I see plenty left out.<br>7.
Canada, when it says Canada Eng, it means Canada Eng. Do not enter England. If it says Canada-English, it means that.<br><br>David Samuelsen<br>_____________________________________________________<br>or-roots mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" href="/mc/compose?to=or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us">or-roots@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a><br><a href="http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots" target="_blank">http://listsmart.osl.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots</a><br>Hosted by the Oregon State Library. The Library is not responsible for content.<br>Questions related to message content should be directed to list owner(s) or the sender of the message, by phone or email.<br>Technical questions? Call 503-378-8800.<br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>