Home› Welcome to the FamilySearch Community!› FamilySearch Help› Indexing

marriage record year - no where on record

John W. O'Brien
John W. O'Brien ✭✭
November 28, 2021 in Indexing

I've run into this situation often when reviewing marriage records: a marriage year is indexed however the year doesn't show anywhere on the record.

But ..... if you look up the year, for example 1932 that is no where on the record, you will find the bans of marriage Sunday dates do match the year, April 10, 17, 24 that are on the record.

However, there are other years that also had Sundays of April 10, 17, 24. I don't know if the indexer looked for a year with those Sunday dates and settled on 1932.

Should I "blank" the year when the year entered is no where on the record?

Thanks, John

0

Answers

  • Tom123
    Tom123 ✭✭✭
    November 28, 2021

    Yes if no date of marriage is on the record, it is indexed as "Blank"

    0
  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 29, 2021

    Perhaps they are recording the year from reference images? It would be very odd to run into this situation often if the year was not available somewhere. You should share the batch code to get the most accurate answer. That is the series of letters/numbers following the project title [XXXX-XXX].

    0
Clear
No Groups Found

Categories

  • 30.2K All Categories
  • 24.4K FamilySearch Help
  • 127 Get Involved
  • 2.7K General Questions
  • 444 FamilySearch Center
  • 466 FamilySearch Account
  • 4.5K Family Tree
  • 3.4K Search
  • 4.7K Indexing
  • 642 Memories
  • 6.6K Temple
  • 326 Other Languages
  • 34 Community News
  • 6.6K Suggest an Idea
  • Groups