US, Michigan—Naturalization Records, 1887–1943 [MQFZ-MMF]

Lisa Kay Horlacher

So I understand that the Oath of Allegiance is a stand alone document and have always indexed it as such.

With the different comments regarding combining records, I am wondering if these records should be combined? In the popup window it says: When combining information from multiple non-overlapping documents on the same image for the same individual, use the record number and record date of the Petition for Naturalization.

Should I combine the documents on image 2 using the record number and date of the Petition for Naturalization? Or make 2 separate entries? The only difference between the 2 documents is the second gives the spouse's date of birth. Other than the OOA, should I always combine documents for the same person on the same image?

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/0d320462-c925-44cb-a863-2f570305d0d4

Lisa Kay Horlacher

I understand Oath of Allegiance is a stand alone document and have been indexing it as such. The pop-up says:

When combining information from multiple non-overlapping documents on the same image for the same individual, use the record number and record date of the Petition for Naturalization.

Is image 2 an example of 2 documents that should be combined? The only different information is the date of birth of the spouse (and of course the record date) Should these be combined or indexed separately?

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/0d320462-c925-44cb-a863-2f570305d0d4

erutherford

DECs and PETs that are for the same person on the same image are to be combined, including any and all name variants.

Randall Anthony Robinson

Michigan immigration records have no provision for entering spouse information. I have made two entries of immigration records. The quality check demands spouse information. For what I can tell the immigrants could have been unmarried. I can’t proceed to submit!

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@Randall Anthony Robinson, as always in every indexing project on FS, if there is no information for a required field, you simply need to mark the field blank. One way to do that is by typing Ctrl-B (or your OS's equivalent for Ctrl).