Steve and Bunny wrote:
>I have one other question concerning indexing standards. How is a name 
indexed when a name is partially legible?



Steve and Bunny,

It depends upon what part of the name is illegible. Some variants would be:

____worth, James [put in a section before "A"]
F___worth, James
F___worth [Fulworth?], James
Falmouth [Fulworth?], James [which would then be crossreferenced as ...
Fulworth [Falmouth?], James

Some possibilities I can't render here in ASCII. For example, in the entry
below, envision an underscore beneath "m" and "u."

Falmouth[?], James

This fashion would indicate that you are questioning whether your reading of
those letters are correct.

With regard to the length of the line, do one blank "underscore" for each
unreadable letter.


Christine Rose's chapter in ProGen has various examples under "Document
Flaws," in her section "Editorial Additions" on p. 465. If you go to Google
Books and query for ProGen (Professional Genealogy: A Manual for
Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians), and then query
for "Document Flaws," you should be able to turn up an image of this one
page.  Google, of course, has limits on how much of a book you can see, but
a few pages are usually allowed.

Also helpful, in case you don't have it, is Patricia Law Hatcher and John V.
Wylie, _Indexing Family Histories: Simple Steps for a Quality Product_, NGS
Special Publication no. 73 (Arlington: National Genealogical Society, 1994).

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Advanced Research Methodology & Evidence Analysis
Samford University Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research

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