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Mary Rice
Mary Rice ✭✭
July 1, 2022 in Indexing
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/bc78a9e2-530b-4e23-96ba-94fe0fde12bf

Batch [M3LY-8L6] I just started reviewing this batch after having indexed about 200 of them. I had read the project helps and field helps many times and thought I understood them well. This indexer has made 3 entries out of the single image by including a Birth/Baptism entry for the husband and and one for the wife.

Project helps do say to index all marriage, birth/baptism, burial, etc records. I did not include births for the spouses on these particular single marriage records as I had indexed them.

What is the correct way to index marriage records if a birth date happens to be included?

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 1, 2022 edited July 1, 2022 Answer ✓

    Unless the project instructions have a special instruction to index EACH event, then you would only index the marriage on a marriage register. The example for How to Index a Marriage Register says nothing about creating birth and baptism records.

    I agree with you that the instructions say only to index the marriage and not create a record for each of the birthdays. I would delete the two birth records, but, wait for more opinions.

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  • gary_noble
    gary_noble ✭✭✭
    July 1, 2022 Answer ✓

    Hi Mary, yes just the marriage info is indexed for this record, delete the additional birth entries 2&3 that have been wrongly created

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  • Mary Rice
    Mary Rice ✭✭
    July 5, 2022

    @Melissa S Himes @gary_noble Thank you both for your suggestions. I have done as you suggested and so far I have not found another batch done with separate baptism entries for the spouses.

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