Talk:FamilySearch Indexing: New Zealand–Passenger Lists, 1871-1915, Project Updates

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Occupation : "Labourers and Domestics"
I'm seeing several batches where "Labourers and Domestics" is written vertically across the Occupation column, applying to all passengers generally, with no specific occupation recorded for each individual passenger. I'm unhappy with the way some indexers and arbitrators are assuming that, in these lists, all male passengers are Labourers, and all female passengers are Domestics. There were female labourers back then (such as farm labourers) and male domestic servants (such as butlers, coachmen, etc), so it doesn't feel right to assume male=labourer and female=domestic. Is it acceptable to index all of these passengers with the occupation "Labourer or Domestic"? - Dms246 15:58, 10 December 2011 (UTC)