marriage index

Carol Peabody

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

Susan Ann Mullen Pelton

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!