US, Missouri—County Marriages, 1806–1969 [Part O] [M9LD-D2G]

Tara Roberts_1

The apostrophes for surnames - O'Neill, O'Leary, etc. - aren't showing up, even when I type them. Instructions say nothing about this, just the following:

• Type names and place-names as they were written. Do not correct misspellings or expand abbreviations.
• In web indexing, you can include punctuation when typing names and place-names; however, including punctuation is not required.
• When typing a name that has an apostrophe, such as "O'Connor," do not include a space before or after the apostrophe.

Is this project automatically leaving out the apostrophes, or is my keyboard wonky? If this IS the way the surname entry field is set up, should I leave a space between O and the rest, like O Neill? Or no space - ONeill?

Thanks!

SchaefferJudithKay1

When typing the given name what do I do with the underlined letter for instance it is spelled Gust with an underlined small s at the end of the given name? Do I include it when entering the given name? I am pretty sure the given names are abbreviated.

Thank you for your help

Melissa S Himes

Hi @Tara Roberts_1 and thanks for sharing your batch code! I also could not type an apostrophe on your shared batch so I downloaded one to see what happened to my own batch. I can not type an apostrophe in the surname field for this project either.

The punctuation and spaces on these surnames does not matter to the "system" so they might have made it so you can't type an apostrophe (or it is a glitch, or you and I are using the same operating system for MAC?)

The good news is that it is not your keyboard! I would just carry on and index without the apostrophes or spaces.

@SchaefferJudithKay1 You would include the small letter at the end of the given name (like, Gusts, Margt, Jos, Jno) We type what we see and do not expand the abbreviations of given or surnames unless the project instructions say otherwise. (I have seen this done once in a project).

Tara Roberts_1

@Melissa S Himes Thanks. My thought was to just go with it, but then that little creep of doubt.... Thanks for the answer!