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United States—Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916–1939 [Part O]

Bonnie Merrell Higginson
Bonnie Merrell Higginson ✭
February 8, 2022 in Indexing

At the top of the image of a monthly roster, that is shown sideways, it says "Correct as of the last day of...October 1918". Should the Military Day be "31" or should it be left blank ("<BLANK>")?

The batch number is M3K2-FQJ.

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  • Dave Morris6
    Dave Morris6 ✭✭✭
    February 9, 2022

    To me the " last day of October 1918" would be indexed as October 31, 1918. This subject has came up before with various answers.

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  • Bonnie Merrell Higginson
    Bonnie Merrell Higginson ✭
    February 9, 2022

    ok. Thank you.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 9, 2022 edited February 9, 2022

    We’ve been instructed to Ctrl+B <Blank> it.

    Here is a quote from a discussion several weeks ago:

    “annewandering mod

    January 8 edited January 8

    It is a question of following the contract with the owners of the document. The best answer I have been able to find is to mark the field blank as barbaragailsmith1 has reminded us. It might be frustrating but we need to remember that we just index. The researchers get to make the conclusions. 

    Thank you all for this informative conversation. It has been enlightening."

    Here is a link to the entire discussion (I hope):

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/418231#Comment_418231

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  • Bonnie Merrell Higginson
    Bonnie Merrell Higginson ✭
    February 9, 2022

    I looked at the link to an entire discussion that you sent about this. It was very informative. Thank you so much for your input and the link.

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  • John Empoliti
    John Empoliti ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 9, 2022

    You’re welcome.

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  • beverlywandajones1
    beverlywandajones1 ✭
    February 9, 2022

    I can't figure out how to view the comment and get the answer to this question! Help!

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  • PiperTWilson
    PiperTWilson ✭✭✭
    February 9, 2022

    @beverlywandajones1 - Thanks for asking! All you need to do is click on the blue, underlined font provided by @John Empoliti. That's the link that will take you to the comment. Let us know if you have any other trouble.

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