WOOHOOO!!!! I wanted to find all the missing Jester numbers made empty via merging. DONE!!! I do not recommend this on a common name, but Jester in all its mispellings isn't common.
When I copied the index list and got it sorted into a spreadsheet, found the missing IDs, and ticked off the names that had been tagged already with Category:Jester Name Study, tagged the ones that needed tagging, and tagged the spouses too!!! And even a few kids too.
My purpose was not just to record every Jester in the US, but to follow the families down thru all the marriages and descendants. My take on a one name study just isn't about the ones who carry the name, but the bloodline also.
Next phase is to do location tags. and get the kids.
My bro the social-network anthropologist tells me that for every fact, there has to be documentation. {the Ph.D. to the 8th grade dropout who has been doing genealogy for nearly as long as he was in college, yes that is a very snide remark) And for every location that a documented event, needs to have a location category tag. (Yes, once in a while he and I agree on something.) So, I will be going back thru the list to make sure there are location tags. But not today.
There were 640 lines used. 5 were completely wiped out. I would click on an ID number from my list, to find it had been merged into another, and then completely GONE. Several were locked and couldn't be tagged, oh well, I'll just have to keep trying on those. 17 had been merged. And the last number used was Jester-664.
Now I'm going to work on getting Brown Township, Union County, AR 1850 census profiled. I already got the docs! In fact all of 1850 Union County has been indexed by hand, because If I make a mistake, we can fix it. Trying to get FS to fix an index is worse then pulling hen's teeth.
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