What is the explanation for the decisions for what was included in the SP Index format?
An index is designed to take a person to the data. A simple index only has those data elements needed to provide that trail back to the raw data. A film has a unique number assigned to it. It is normally broken down into parts (called “item”) and within each item on a film there exists a page number. In the church register, each entry is normally provided it’s own register number. So if you had that data in hand you could go to the right film, the item on that film, to the page of that item and then the “register” number of that page. So if we give you just the essential data for the person involved in that event, and tell you how to get to the entry on the film, then you can glean from a very large stack of data to find those that fit into your criteria and then you can go look the data up. There is a whole team process involving those who will be doing the extracting to gather the “required” data elements for an indexing project. Each element is debated and a factor assigned as to ne
