Gender or first name initial.

LowellSkipton

New York Birth Indexes sometime will show the letters F or M. I believe these are for the sex column and not the first name initial. Is that correct? In these cases there appears to be no first name. Just need clarification, please. Thank you, Vickie

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/72aae651-f560-4397-ac99-7f432beff6d0

erutherford

You are correct. F and M are for the sex. You'll leave the given name blank and mark the sex field F or M. From your batch:

LowellSkipton

Thank you for your quick response.