italian records need indexing on familysearch

[kylejustin]

familysearch is looking for volunteers to help index italian civil registration 1800-1940.

https://www.familysearch.org/italian-ancestors/?icid=fsHomeItalianAncestors

thought this might be handy for those with italian ancestry.......

[Guest]

I'd love to have a go but am not very good with Italian Place names ,would it matter ?

[Elaine ..Spain]

If you don't want to do Italian records there are plenty of others on offer!

Worldwide Indexing page

https://www.familysearch.org/volunteer/indexing

Family Search Indexing projects
https://indexing.familysearch.org/projtab/current_projects.jsf

[Guest]

thanks Elaine , was thinking as I do have some Italians that need tracing it might have helped me ? but might have a try at that

[Mary from Italy]

I'm already doing it, although I don't actually have Italian ancestry, but there don't seem to be an awful lot of others.

[Mary from Italy]

I'd love to have a go but am not very good with Italian Place names ,would it matter ?

I wouldn't attempt it if you don't speak Italian.

[Guest]

oh I wont Mary would annoy a few people if I did

[kylejustin]

i don't know how detailed they expect it to be- i guess looking at their guides will tell you the info they want. i was considering doing the posen ones.

[Mary from Italy]

You download a program and type the information they want for each project into it.

For civil registration births, for example, it's normally the child's name, gender, date of birth and parents' names. It sounds easy, but often isn't; the handwriting can be hard to read, and in Italian records, in the case of foundlings and illegitimate children legitimised by a later marriage, you need to understand what the record says so you can fill in the parents' names correctly.

[Mary from Italy]

Oh, and you can't just decide you'd like to do a certain parish or a certain year; you have to choose from a list of what's available for transcribing.

I don't think Posen is listed - it'd presumably be shown as Poznan under Poland?

I would have been interested in doing certain parishes in Derbyshire, but you can only choose the county; the parish or year that comes up can be anything.

[PhotoFamily]

You can always return records that are not something that you want to do.

Transcription work is broken into sections. Some sections are fairly specific: there has been transcription of Chicago Catholic parish records, for instance (I backed out of that one - it wasn't complex, but it was in Latin). I've worked on Bristol & Essex parish records. The 1940 census allowed you to specify the state. Irish applotment records were different.

Even if you can't specify your ancestors' specific parish, working on records from the area that they lived will speed the release of the area's index.

[SueNSW]

I signed up (like others I guess) to transcribe something that particularly interested me - Essex Parish Registers - but despite them being on this very long list of projects for indexing - https://indexing.familysearch.org/pr...t_projects.jsf - they are not offered at the moment - so have ended up doing mostly US ones

This is the current list to choose from - with the "level" of transcriber they suggest does them shown at the end

South Africa—Church of the Province of South Africa Baptism Registers, 1850–1914 [Part 1] English - 1850–1914 Beginning
US (Community Project), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia—Passenger List Index Cards, 1883–1948 English - 1883–1948 (Highest Priority) Beginning
US, Indiana—WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 [Part 3] English - 1917–1918 Beginning
US, Kansas—WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 [Part 3] English - 1917–1918 Beginning
US, Michigan—WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 [Part 3A] English - 1917–1918 Beginning
US, Minnesota—WWI Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 [Part 3] English - 1917–1918 Beginning
US, Ohio—WWI Draft Registration Cards 1917–1918 [Part 3A] English - 1917–1918 Beginning
Australia, Queensland—Cemetery Records, 1811–1985 English - 1811-1985 Intermediate
Bahamas—Civil Registration, 1850–1959 English - 1850–1959 Intermediate
Barbados—Church Records, 1637–1850 English - 1637–1850 Intermediate
Canada - Passenger Lists 1881-1922 English - 1881-1922 Intermediate
Canada, New Brunswick—Provincial Marriages, 1789–1950 [Part A] English - 1789–1950 Intermediate
Jamaica—Civil Marriages and Deaths, 1871–1995 English - 1871–1995 Intermediate
New Zealand, Passenger Lists - 1871-1915 [Part 2A] English - 1871-1915 Intermediate
Norway—1875 Federal Census [Part F] English - 1875 Intermediate
Philippines, Pangasinan—Civil Registration, 1946–1965 English - 1946–1965 Intermediate
South Africa—Methodist Church Parish Registers, 1822–1996 [Part B] English - 1822–1996 Intermediate
UK, Derbyshire—Church of England Parish Records, 1538–1910 English - 1538-1910 Intermediate
US (Community Project), Louisiana—New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1903–1945 English - 1903–1945 Intermediate
US (Community Project), New York—Passenger Lists, 1875–1891 English - 1875-1891 Intermediate
US (Community Project), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia—Passenger Lists, 1800–1882 [Part A] English - 1800–1882 Intermediate
US, District of Columbia—Freedmen's Bureau Letters, 1865–1870 English - 1865–1870 Intermediate
US, Iowa—County Marriages 1838-1992 [Part C] English - 1838-1992 Intermediate
US, Louisiana—Parish Marriages, 1837–1929 [Part C] English - 1837–1929 Intermediate
US, Michigan—County Deaths, 1921–1952 English - 1921-1952 Intermediate
US, Ohio—County Births, 1856–1956 [Part A] English - 1856–1956 Intermediate
US, Ohio—County Marriages, 1790–1950 [Part 3A] English - 1790–1950 Intermediate
US, Oklahoma—Land Allotment Records of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1899–1907 [Part 1E] English - 1899–1907 Intermediate
US, Oklahoma—Land Allotment Records of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1899–1907 [Part D] English - 1899–1907 Intermediate
US, Texas - County Tax Rolls 1837-1910 [Part A] English - 1837-1910 Intermediate
US, Texas—County Marriages, 1837–1977 [Part A] English - 1837-1977 Intermediate
US—Registers of Enlistment in the U.S. Army, 1798–1913 [Part 2] English - 1798—1913 Intermediate
US—Veterans Pension Cards, 1907–1933 [Part B] English - 1907-1933 Intermediate
Italy, Trento - Baptisms 1784-1924 [Part 2A] English - 1784-1924 Advanced
South Africa—Free State Dutch Reformed Church Records, 1848–1956 [Part 2] English - 1848–1956 Advanced
UK, Dorset—Church of England Church Records, 1538–1910 [Part B] English - 1538–1910 Advanced
UK, Sussex—Church of England Parish Records, 1538–1910 English - 1538-1910 Advanced
US, Illinois, Chicago—Catholic Church Records, 1833–1910 [Part A] English - 1833-1910 Advanced
US, Indiana, Parke County Marriages – 1811-1959 English - 1811-1959 Advanced
US, Indiana, Perry County, Marriages – 1811-1959 English - 1811-1959 Advanced

[kylejustin]

i guess they are existing image sets, as the one i mentioned for poznan, was part of the province in poland, but i think some of brandenburg was in the collection. it was ont he list when i posted the thread, but i don't see it up there in the list.

[Mary from Italy]

No, I've just checked, and it's in the list that Elaine linked to, under Germany, but it's not in the list of available projects that comes up in my program.