Step children listed on death certificate
Sorry to be asking so many questions, but I'm a stickler for details and want to get it right. I'm reviewing a South African death certificate. I'm using Google lens to make sure I can understand the ones in Afrikaans. The indexer listed two children, but I translated a note above that says she had no children of her own, only two step daughters. Should they be indexed as her children or not? Thanks!
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I've never seen indexing instructions that distinguished between types of parental relationships, so I would say that if the record lists them as any kind of daughters, and the project instructions indicate that this person's children should be indexed, then yes, the step-daughters should be indexed. But it really does depend on the specific project's specific instructions.
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