Some of you may have already downloaded a batch from the York General Burying Ground—the earliest cemetery in our project. I’ll write more later, but you should consider reorganizing fields to make indexing easier. You’ll find instructions in my November 5 blog entry. Here’s what the re-organized fields should look […]
Toronto Trust Cemeteries
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As we approach turn-of-the-century records at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, I thought you might be interested in a little of the cemetery’s history. Mount Pleasant’s official opening was on Saturday, November 6, 1876—133 years ago, almost to the day. This article appeared in the Globe newspaper on the following Monday (page […]
While we were beta testing the Toronto Trust Cemeteries indexing pages, one of the biggest changes we made was to consolidate the three “Where interred” fields into one, because we realized that the way locations were described was wildly variable—and the variations wouldn’t fit neatly into the fields. So, now […]
Don’t you sometimes wish you could ask that clerk why he didn’t use better ink, or a sharper pen, or at least why he didn’t take his time? Did he not realize that we’d be trying to read his writing 100 years later! Here are a few tricks you can […]
Quite frequently, we’ve been coming across plots with multiple owners–likely siblings in most cases. We have been recording only the first owner which meant that we might be missing the opportunity to index additional family surnames . NEW: If there are two or more owners, record all the first names, […]
In the case of an un-named infant or child, or the occasional “wife of”, the rule is to mark the “deceased’s given name” blank with ctrl+b and to use the surname of the relative mentioned. The Mount Pleasant indexing fields offer no obvious way to record the forename of the […]
Indexer Pat Jeffs has brought forward a anomaly in the Mount Pleasant registers for which we now have an answer. Pat noted that, in a couple of cases, there were two individuals listed on a single line in the register–one set of twin infants, and a husband and wife. Each […]
I know that some of you have discovered the “organize fields” feature, but for those that haven’t, here’s a pleasant surprise that will make your indexing much easier. ORGANIZE FIELDS When you have the indexing page open, you’ll see a “View” menu at the top left. Choose “Organize fields” and […]