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Carol Peabody
Carol Peabody ✭
December 19, 2021 edited December 19, 2021 in Indexing

The index only contains the month day and year license issued but not the date of marriage. Do I add the month and day with year or leave those fields empty

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  • SusanMullenPelton
    SusanMullenPelton ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 19, 2021

    From the Field Help for Marriage Year, bullet point 3, we read: "If a marriage date was not indicated, type the date based on the following priority:

    1. License date
    2. Latest banns date
    3. Consent date
    4. Recording date
    5. Any date other than a birth date

    In other words we index whatever date we find in that list of priority unless it is a birth date, in which case we do not index that birthdate.

    Thank you for asking!

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