How to distinguish indexed records where indexed data are same, but different entries on same image?
Looking at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939X-DP97-D5?view=index&action=view ("San Buenaventura. Baptism Records 1813–1817"; this is a Spanish-language Catholic christening register from Cuautitlán, State of Mexico, Mexico, March 5th through 8th, 1816).
There are four entries (numbered 1100 through 1103) dated March 7th, three named "Victoriana Tomasa" and the last named "Tomasa Victoriana". I'm particualarly worried about the second and third entries. The information that has been indexed is exactly the same: child's name, father's name as "Doroteo Anto" (written "Doroteo Antº", using a scribal abbreviation for "Antonio"), mother's name as "Luisa Anta" (written "Luisa Antª", likewise using a scribal abbreviation for "Antonia"), christening place, date.
Some of the additional information not indexed would serve to distingish the entries, although some of it matches. The serial number in the margin differs. The place of parents' residence differs, "la Vicitacion" (or "la Vicitacⁿ" in the margin) versus "Tenopalco". The godfather is listed without his wife in the first entry and with her in the second.
I don't know whether the first of those entries had incorrect information that the scribe intended to supersede by writing the second, or there really were two couples with matching given names from those two towns, or whether another child was christened that day and the scribe incorrectly copied over a different child's parents' names.
I thought it would be helpful to add a name highlight to the index, but how do I know which index entry came from which entry in the document? Or is that information lost, so I should just pick one arbitrarily?
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The new index editing should allow fields and highlights to be added, but right now you run the risk of the edit affecting what shows in the index list. Until that's fixed, I'm not sure there's much to be done.
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Keep in mind that the index is not a transcription. It's just a finding aid. If the page has three entries with the same names, there's no point to having three entries in the index: just the one entry will find the page.
For the highlighting question, I'd be tempted to highlight all three. I believe the new editor is capable of that.
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