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For a birth record do you put no extractable data if no name?

zacharyboydcampbell1
zacharyboydcampbell1 ✭
March 17 in Indexing

For a birth record do you put no extractable data if no name? Also, how do you find discussions on relevant topics. I'm surprised I'm the 1st person asking what to do if a record does not have a name.

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  • zacharyboydcampbell1
    zacharyboydcampbell1 ✭
    March 17
    https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/c0db95c2-2d05-464c-851d-da475e061754

    bacth code M3G4-FDP

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  • maryellenstevensbarnes1
    maryellenstevensbarnes1 ✭✭✭
    March 17

    For Image 2, the unnamed child's name should be marked <blank>. The project instructions and Field Helps (the purple question mark) can be very helpful in determining how to index these records

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  • annewandering
    annewandering ✭✭✭✭
    March 17

    To find discussions on relevant topics just click on the search bar at the beginning of the Help Section. Type in your keywords and it will bring up threads with that topic.

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  • CJohns7
    CJohns7 ✭✭✭
    March 17

    Thank you for your question @zacharyboydcampbell1, and for the helpful answers given by maryellenstevensbarnes1 and annewandering.

    In the Project Instructions under What to Remember about This Project, bullet point 6 says, "Sometimes a child did not yet have given names when the birth record was created. Often descriptions such as "baby," "female child," or "male child" were written in place of given names. These descriptions should not be typed in the name fields; however, the records should still be indexed."

    Per these instructions, if a birth record does not include the child's name, it should still be indexed, marking the Child's Given Names and Child's Surname fields blank.

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  • Colin Yamamoto_1
    Colin Yamamoto_1 ✭✭✭
    March 18

    Yeah like @CJohns7 said with those guidelines, the record should still be indexed. For example when ive done birth records, often if the child is stillborn ive found that there isnt a name.

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  • zacharyboydcampbell1
    zacharyboydcampbell1 ✭
    March 21

    This helps thanks.

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