Talk:FamilySearch Indexing: US, New England–Naturalization Index 1791-1906, Overview

Arbitration of Extracted Counties
I am currently arbitrating these records, and am requeting clarification of the extraction of counties.

For "shires" in Great Britian, and "counties" in Ireland, the indexers have been extracting the data into the "Birth State or Province" field. I am seeing this in almost 100% of the records.

Yet, in the powerpoint presentation attached to this project, it indicates that "counties" are not to be extracted. For Great Britain and Ireland, aren't the shire/county the equivalent of a state/province in other countries?

So, should these be extracted or not? If not, as an arbitrator should I be overrideing these fields and setting them to blank?