tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post5489708704398291480..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Monday Mailbox: Listing FamilySearch Indexed CollectionsThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-55935908900666508992013-12-17T15:52:44.784-07:002013-12-17T15:52:44.784-07:00April - thank you for those links - and for the wo...April - thank you for those links - and for the work you do in keeping that table up to date.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-19003201290674227572013-12-16T13:30:51.006-07:002013-12-16T13:30:51.006-07:00FS's Stat page in in XML format gives alot mor...FS's Stat page in in XML format gives alot more information on what is published / awaiting publication / active projects at <a href="https://indexing.familysearch.org/rss?listType=projects" rel="nofollow">https://indexing.familysearch.org/rss?listType=projects</a> you just have to use Ctrl+F to search for the project you want. Or I keep track of it here in spreadsheet form (does not include those that are fully published) <a href="http://www.lofsii.com/LOFSIISpreadsheet.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.lofsii.com/LOFSIISpreadsheet.html</a> my spreadsheet is updated usually every couple days at least for the English projects. Weekly usually for non-English. In our news section of our forums on http://www.lofsii.com I have a weekly post listing the percentage changes of the projects from the last week plus I'll usually make a separate post listing the projects that have been published that week. Can't help with what the parts are though sorry. Especially with projects like Essex, Sussex, Dorset because with those projects it seems like the pages that were photographed were thrown in a pile and the photographer told to grab bag it. There's no order from what I've seen most of the time. Or the old documents are not telling us where they're from except for the project stated area.<br /><br />One thing you didn't point out was those projects that get indexed and then they never get published. Usually due to the fact that FS does not own the rights to them to publish them. There's been a few US State projects where the government does not allow FS to publish them for years to come. <br /><br />Also that support team doesn't work directly at FS. They are volunteers working from home to answer phones and emails. Sometimes on some of these projects they know just as much as us indexers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08793402096568017212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-9898265725556900552013-12-16T10:44:44.893-07:002013-12-16T10:44:44.893-07:00"Someone told me that if a project takes long..."Someone told me that if a project takes longer than 10 months, FamilySearch will go ahead and publish as much as has been completed"<br /><br />That's fine if FS tell us that the collection is only a part. But if they don't, then we are liable to put entirely the wrong interpretation on a nil-return search. For instance, if I get a nil response when looking for someone's baptism in Cheshire then, because I know that county is complete (because Chester Record Office have said so), then I can say that a negative result means they weren't baptised into the Church of England in Cheshire. <br /><br />But if I get a negative result when looking for someone's baptism in another county, what does it mean? Are we 99% certain they weren't baptised in that county? Only 10% certain? <br /><br />I did try following the project completion percentages. For instance, on "https://familysearch.org/indexing/" we see that "UK, Essex - Parish Registers 1538-1900 [Part A]" is 99% indexed. But there's no definition of what the parts are - I don't know how many parts Essex will have - or what's in them... <br /><br />I mailed the FS Support team about whether the parts were documented and they responded that the only documentation they knew of was on the page I was querying. Err, so how are FS managing the index program if they can't answer simple "How big is it?" questions? How do they even know when they've finished? Do they understand that nil returns need interpreting?<br /><br />Adrian BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com