US, Texas, Hidalgo—Marriage Records, 1940–2021 [Part A] [MQ69-427] The first field is a

Lisa Kay Horlacher

drop down to choose between MARRIAGE and MARRIAGE REGISTRATION, however none of the PI's show examples of this being marked. It doesn't allow me to continue unless I choose one from the drop down menu and it won't let me mark it blank. What should I do?

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/bc0af0e9-2004-4d80-b443-c8fb1c6dadab

barbaragailsmith1

I don't understand your question. Why would you want to mark it Blank? If it says it's a Declaration and Registration of Informal Marriage then you mark it as a Marriage Registration. There are examples in the project instructions, even though they don't actually show that field. In this batch they're marriage certificates signed by the person who married them.

Melissa S Himes

Hi Lisa. The examples never show the type of form to be chosen from the drop down menu. They only show the fields that are indexed once you have chosen the type of record you are going to index. If there was something in the collection that didn't need to be indexed, then you would mark it No, No Extractable Data in the first step.

Lisa Kay Horlacher

Thank you. I didn't realize examples never show the type.

mccalltimothyandrew1

Hi all

I have started reviewing these and some have been marked marriage registration and some as just marriage for the same type of document. To me they seem like an informal document and thus registration, but I haven't seen all the types and don't know if they would be considered a formal document, thus marriage only and not registration. What do you guys think?

Thanks

Tim

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/d5579004-84f2-4bad-91a9-211d476b77b2

Instruction

• Index Declaration and Registration of Informal Marriage records as a Marriage Registration event type. All other records with a marriage date should be indexed as Marriage event type.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@mccalltimothyandrew1, both of the examples for Marriage Registration have the words "Declaration and Registration of Informal Marriage" right there on the form. In other words, the instructions are not telling you to make some sort of judgement about the level of formality of the document, but to look for that specific group of words. If they're not there, then it's indexed as a marriage. Both of the images in your shared batch exactly match the first example format shown in the instructions for a marriage record (https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/images?fs-cache=true&key=idx-deepzoom-image&image=eba22a76-7ea1-423e-a850-5dcff75ad97f). (The form has two entries per page; the example shows them as a single image, while your batch has split them into two images.)