Comments on: Keying Quick Tips http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Stephaniehttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2676 Stephanie Fri, 06 May 2011 01:51:41 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2676 I ran into a bit of a reading problem with the writing in the Pennsylvania Tax Records, the handwriting was so fancy I had trouble reading it, was it a K, an H, an S, or even a W? I used your handwriting key and that help some, I went to the handwriting site and that helped to, but the handwriting was just so fancy I put what I though it was, as you’ll see. Also in one place they had Widow, I put Widow as the first name, now as I think back on that it should have been a Prefix, sorry. Also they had what looked like Heirs and I just left that off, not sure where to put it. Please give me some guidance, I want to help, but sometimes even the easy ones are harder than they look. Thanks

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By: lenukhttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2582 lenuk Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:44:21 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2582 I am told in the common faults information page for my project that I should key M’Donald as McDonald. I have issue on two points with this. One, what happened to key what you see? Second, Scotish/Irish names are a minefield. Just using the given example what if the name is not McDonald but MacDonald?

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By: jwarrenhauserhttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2551 jwarrenhauser Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:40:50 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2551 I’m new to keying, but–based on the comments to this blog post–it seems that many Key-ers would find it helpful if Direct Feedback from Arbiters *was* possible as a feature.

[...Sort of like the "Contact [username]” feature on the Ancestry.com site…rather than direct emails, it could go through Ancestry.com’s message service.]

Are there any plans to add this kind of feature to the keying tool?

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By: collier_smithhttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2548 collier_smith Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:20:39 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2548 @Kerry
Sorry, but you should not expect any feedback except your overall accuracy rating.
See the thread at http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1082 for a discussion of this topic.

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By: Suehttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2545 Sue Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:36:07 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2545 Thank you for your review and comments. I just wanted to make one comment about blank spaces. For the most part I’ve been working on Dec’s of Intention and Pet’s for Naturalization; these records vary from very easy to the other extreme. Perhaps because I’ve been typing for over 30 years I don’t leave blank spaces–my brain and typing skills are reliant on each other. Sometimes I have to spend more seconds than usual to make sure the names are correctly typed, and then speed on ahead. I thought not too far back there was discussion about leaving spaces blank has been problematic. I’ve been invited to arbitrate, so perhaps I will be able to see how the issue of not marking blank spaces by skipping them is acceptable, and less time consuming.

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By: moldovanhomehttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2534 moldovanhome Mon, 11 Apr 2011 04:38:22 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2534 Thank you so much for these tips! I’ve just starting keying and am addicted! Because of what I read here, I was able to go back and remove the “blanks” on the non-pink fields. ::phew:: :)

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By: Kerryhttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2514 Kerry Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:58:04 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2514 This is my second week on this project so I’m very new to the process and appreciate all of you sharing your expertise and insights! As a new keying volunteer I don’t know what the turnaround is on feedback from a reviewer. Do we get direct feedback?

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By: Wendy Mhttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2485 Wendy M Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:06:07 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2485 Georgine, thanks for your input.
These little orange fields would not allow me to delet in any manner eitherusing my deelete buttons or from the forms ‘delete record’. I recounted today & have the exact amount of names.38
I did notice tho’ as I blanked a few more horrid little orange fields..the review count went down. 66 lines later, all fields reviewed & blanked.

Heartfelt apologies Arbitrators…but I’m free & can submit.Yayyy!

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By: Georgine Herdhttp://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2484 Georgine Herd Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:14:36 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2484 @ Wendy M

Since I don’t know what project you’re keying, this suggestion may not work — but sometimes I somehow add a record and then I will have a message to review the required fields. So— two suggestions: 1) delete that record if all blank, 2) delete that field

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By: paulmd199http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077&cpage=1#comment-2483 paulmd199 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 20:22:24 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/worldarchivesproject/?p=1077#comment-2483 Both

Surname is a required field (it will be highlighted in pink when empty)

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