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Gender or first name initial.

LowellSkipton
LowellSkipton ✭
April 5, 2022 in Indexing

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

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  • erutherford
    erutherford ✭✭✭✭
    April 5, 2022 edited April 5, 2022

    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:

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  • LowellSkipton
    LowellSkipton ✭
    April 9, 2022

    Thank you for your quick response.

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