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Virginia Vital Records to index or NNED?

maryellenstevensbarnes1
maryellenstevensbarnes1 ✭✭✭✭
November 28, 2022 in Indexing

Hi, this batch is a a Birth Index with child's name and complete birthdate. [M3TD-Q88] I know PI says not to index an Index without at least child's name and birthdate (no PI example) but this one has me confused because Columns titled Parents/Owners Names seem to have been used for child's names and birthdates unique to get more data on the same page. Should I go ahead and index in columnar fashion starting with birthdate on left and leaving other information, ie parent's names, blank?

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 28, 2022 edited November 28, 2022 Answer ✓

    @maryellenstevensbarnes1

    Previous similar question:

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/127811/us-virginia-vital-records-birth-date-only-no-other-indexable-information

    Here is your batch image from the film roll:

    https://www.familysearch.org/ark%3A/61903/3%3A1%3A3QSQ-G9XF-C5ZC?i=24&cat=473733

    You could compare some of the names in this index page with the subsequent pages (do a little math to figure out which image) - and you should be able to see those names.

    The records/images in this Project have been fairly hard to read though that I would prefer - if in Project administration - that the image be indexed anyway - just in case the later pages are too hard to read a name here or there. There are subsequent index pages on the roll images that are indexed so I would suspect the answer is to index this batch.

    The column headings are a little deceiving possibly ...

    Name of free born children | Date of birth | Page (these first three columns go together and the index will be for the child with <BLANK> parents)

    Names of Parents of Free Born Children when Children have no Names | Date of Birth | Page (these three columns go together - and the index would have <BLANK> child names but with parents names)

    Names of Owners of Slaves Born | Date of Birth | Page (these three columns go together and will have <BLANK> child and parent fields but entry for Owner)

    Yes, so it is three indexes to birth record pages per index page - not one record per horizontal row.

    I guess you will need to wait for someone from FamilySearch Project Admin to specifically answer the question again...

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  • maryellenstevensbarnes1
    maryellenstevensbarnes1 ✭✭✭✭
    November 29, 2022

    Thanks, I couldn't bring up your URL so I just did the best I could with contrast and old eyes😎

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 29, 2022 edited November 29, 2022

    Hmm, link (the platform here inserts encoded characters for ':' I guess):

    https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9XF-C5ZC?i=24&cat=473733

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