county marriage records
I am working on some batches that have the groom and bride on the same line but some have a column of grooms and another column of brides and their last names all start with the same letter. My question is about how they are done, I am reviewing and the one column goes down with the grooms names and dates of the marriages and then the brides and the dates are different for the marriages than the men on the same lines, So are we supposed to index/review images like this? thank you
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If the bridge and groom are united in marriage, you will index it. For groom/bride columns, this is where it gets tricky.
The Attention box states: Index each line on the marriage register if it contains a name of a male, female, and a date. That's fine and dandy, but if you have groom/bride columns, the should not be indexed, as you're missing the second party.
HOWEVER, the PI states: If a record does not include a name for the principal person, you should still index the record, marking the principal name fields blank and indexing other names, such as names of the spouse, along with any other fields that are present on the record. According to this instruction, the index should be indexed. You have a name and a marriage date.
Since these are contradictory instructions, consensus around here it to halt all indexing and reviewing until the issue has been resolved. I recommend shelving the project and working on something else while the instructions are fixed.
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thank you
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Only index the ones that have a male, a female and a date
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I called and the lady said you index the column of grooms and the column of brides when they are not a couple, there is an index reference where you can go on the page to show the rest of the story. The males and females are listed by last names that start with the same letters. These type are not a couple.
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Pennyrose, whoever you talked to is misinformed or hasn't become aware of the instruction change. (Unless you talked to her before yesterday, when they changed the instructions. A few days ago that would have been the case, but they changed the project instructions yesterday to say to only index those records that have both parties (a male, a female, and a date). Since these are not couples, you would only be indexing one of the parties for each record, which we now don't do. Both marriage partners must be indexed, so this would be Non Ext Data.
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