Should I date an April death as 1860 or 1859? [see below] [MQNS-D71]
The Enumerator in the death column dated the death year Nov 59, Dec 59, etc. Finally came across an April date and it is also dated Apr 59. According to the instructions I should date it as 1860, but that will conflict with his date of April 59. Of note, I am not the first person to index this batch, I can only guess why it was sent through again, [they only did the first page, but not the included 2nd page, what they did has few errors] the original indexer used the 1859 date the Enumerator added. Did the Enumerator ask the question wrong and it should be 1859 or should I follow directions and index it as 1860 for the months Jan through the end of May, leaving the patron confused with the conflicting dates of Indexer vs Enumerator.
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The column on the document for the death date is for the month only, and usually that's what is given, so the year has to be estimated, thus the instruction. But since this document has the year actually given, you don't need to estimate it. I would enter what's written on the document.
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