Marriage Records
If a marriage record is an index directing the reader to a page number, but has both the bride and groom's names, should I index it?
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Probably not. It is always best to share your batch to get the most accurate answer and allow others to read the project instructions. There should be an instruction somewhere in your project, either in a pop-up.
For example, the Virginia Marriage project:
- Indexes are images with only a name and reference information, such as page or volume number, with no other information, such as dates, available. Indexes should be marked as No, No Extractable Data.
The MIssouri marriage project has a rather convoluted instruction. But, the pop-up does say that the rule to index images with only a name and no dates does not apply to book indexes. So, they don't get indexed.
"Some images to be indexed may contain only a name. Images that contain only a name should be indexed regardless of whether the image contains any other fields that are being indexed in the project. This rule does not apply to book indexes, where only a name and page number are to be indexed."
To share batches, add the batch code to your question or in a comment. The code is the series of letters/numbers following the title of the project. {XXXX-XXX]
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Some projects will say to index even if there are only names. That is why it is so important to read all the instructions before indexing! Project Instructions, Field Help and if there is a gate message before getting into the actual batch.
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