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Sunday, September 5, 2010

RE-DO BATCHES



The Question was Asked:
What is a Re-Do Batch?
When you complete a batch and submit it another person will also do the same batch. The work of the two indexers will be compared, side by side, by a third person who is called an Arbitrator. This is done before the work is released to "Records Search" for the whole world to see.
The Arbitrator is the person who is sending back batch's that are not done correctly. The most common reason for an arbitrator to return a batch is because the work is not complete. If an indexer forgot one or two lines of data that isn't too bad because that could be fixed with little effort. But when most of the data is blank , then the batch is returned and someone else gets to "redo" that batch. Both batches would not go back, just the one with the missing data.The arbitrator has no idea who did either batch, or who will be getting the "redo" batch to work on later.
As an arbitrator I try to fix as many mistakes as I can, but we are told not to try to re- index the missing data when a large percentage of it is blank.
As Indexers the best thing way avoid getting your work sent back as a "Re-do" is to make sure you shrink the image to about 37% and move the image around to see both the left and right sides and all the way to the bottom before you start indexing. You may have to add lines to your work sheet at the bottom. Or on some of the marriage records you will find two marriages on one image, so you would have to set the number of "Records per Image" at 2.To do this you go to "Tools" at the top of your screen, click on "Records per Image" then change the number in the little box to the number that you need. You can add numbers, but you can't subtract numbers.
Some projects are set for a specific number of lines. Example: New Jersey State Census project is set at 47 lines per batch. What if there is only 10 lines with names written on the Image? Well you would enter the 10 names, and you mark the remaning 37 lines as "Blank". Each line must have something in it before you submit it.
The only way you will know if you have batches that are sent back would be if your Ward Indexing Specilaist, or I, would tell you what is happening. We will have no idea what batch it was, or what type of record it came from. There is help available to help you find out what may have been wrong. One thing we could do is "Share a Batch" with someone else to check your next batch before you submit it. Most times it is a simple misunderstanding on how to add lines to your work sheet. It is something that can be fixed. There is plenty of help available.
So if you are working on some new projects, be sure to read the project information and field helps. Be sure to move that image around so you see all of it. Then if you are still concerned about the directions please call me or email me, or call the Help desk in SLC for an explanation. It's toll free 1-866-406-1830.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Stake Indexing Statisticts

"It is tremendously significant to me that ....the foretelling of the Church's remarkable family history work occurred on the initial visit of Moroni to the boy Joseph Smith in 1823.......four years before he was allowed to take the plates from the hill, or before he received either the Aaronic or Melchizedek Priesthood, before he was baptized, and well before the Church was organized! It says much concerning the priority of this work in the plan of the Lord!"
Liahona, 1996 Gordon B Hinckley

Oklahoma City Stake Indexing Statistics for August 2010
August 38,191 names submitted 2171 names Arbitrated 25 batches to redo (not good)
Our cummlative for the year 102,793 !!!
CONGRATULATIONS WE DID IT
Statistics by ward:
Clinton 3018 names indexed
Edmond First - 2977 names indexed - 180 names arbitrated
Edmond Second - 2304 names indexed - 50 names arbitrated
Oklahoma City Fifth - 4353 names indexd
Oklahoma City First - 8177 names indexed - 1808 names arbitrated
Oklahoma City Third -6747 names indexed - 133 names arbitrated
University Ward - 89 names indexed
Quail Creek - 2591 names indexed
Village Ward - 7807 names indexed
Woodward Branch - 128 names indexed
THE TOP TEN INDEXERS THIS MONTH
Susan Crane - Village Ward - 6175
Gene Bushman - OKC 3rd Ward - 4235
Scott Foulger - OKC 5th ward - 4155
Lois Gilbert - OKC 1st Ward - 3105
Wilma White - OKC 1st Ward - 2185
Bobby Gilliland - Clinton ward - 1739
Gary Howell -Edmond 2nd Ward -1606
Shirley Corrigan - OKC 3rd Ward - 1588
Virginia Butler - Edmond 1st Ward - 1216
Barry Peterson - OKC 1st Ward - 1018
Great Work - let's keep up our pace and aim for 250,000 by the end of the year !!
Thank you all so very much