Should I include marriage records when doing baptisms that are inserted between records.

StephanieSteadman1

There are 2 marriages at the end of a page on this record and not sure if should ignore or create marriage record. I'm not sure which child they are attached. https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/bd0c83a3-399a-4b00-b328-b525dfabddd0

genthusiast

The instructions:

• Some images in this project include more than 1 entry type on the same image. For example, an image may include baptism, marriage, and death records for the year on the same image. Please index each entry using the appropriate entry type of Baptism/Birth/Christening, Marriage, or Burial/Death.

Opinion: In this case the marriage information appears as a note apparently attached to the previous baptism record. So it does not appear as a separate marriage record but could be interpreted as such (but is definitely not for the same birth index year). There appear to be two sequential marriages listed for this person. I would probably create two marriage records - but you'll probably have others indicate not to (referencing some general guideline rule for notes - which i looked for... and the supposition that marriage records will be indexed elsewhere).

StephanieSteadman1

Where they are just a note I don't think they would be indexed somewhere else and just forgotten. I created 2 marriage records it just seemed strange 2 for the same person but the dates work that he was married twice. Thank you!

Mirevo

 Generally, we do not index notes of marriages which are listed in the margin next to a birth in a birth project.  However, as this project is for church records and we are given the ability to change from record type to record type within the batch, which suggests we can enter different types of events on a given image. If I am looking at this correctly, there are 2 marriage records recorded at the bottom of the first page rather than in the margins or within a baptism record. In this case it would be okay to index the marriage records in this batch.  

In What to Remember, the 21st (or second to last) bullet point says: You may need to add or delete entries in the data entry area to index all of the records on an image or remove any unused entries.

The key words here are "all of the records on an image".

Melissa S Himes

You might want to check with "headquarters" on that. The second to the bullet point is standard on all projects. We don't index marginal information, such as a marriage of parents is attached to a baptism, but, if this is a marriage mixed amongst baptisms, then maybe.

"Occasionally, information was written in the margin of a document that is not being indexed in the project. For example, in baptism records marriage information may have been added about the child’s parents (names, date, and place). In these situations, do not index an entry for the notes in the margin. Index only the information on the main record."

Here is the link:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-should-i-index-information-written-in-the-margins