Ireland church records: Do I leave the child's surname blank if I have the Father's surname?
Ireland, Sligo church records 1740-1880 [Part B] [MQC2-SP3]
Catharinam Patritii Flynn & Catharinae Commisky
Do I record the surname Flynn for Catharinam or leave blank?
Thank you
Answers
-
In the first example of how to index these in the project instructions, it shows not to add the father's surname for the child if it's not on the record for the child.
0 -
Irrelevant to your question, but ick, this is why I don't do Latin batches (even though I could): the names are Catharina, Patritius Flynn, and Catharina Commisky. The different endings are Latin grammar, and the instruction to index them exactly as written means that what's going in the index includes the Latin equivalent of prepositions. Imagine an index that has "for Mary" and "of John" as the given names….
Back to the question, I agree with Barbara: the instruction in the initial popup and the field help, about indexing the child's surname for the parents in this project, is not commutative. Example 1 under What to Index clearly shows a register with no surname recorded for the child, which is to be indexed with no surname for the child.
That is, in this project, the following three arrangements would each be indexed differently:
Ellen, daughter of Patrick Flynn and Mary Waters — no surname for child
Ellen Flynn, daughter of Patrick and Mary Waters — father indexed as Patrick Flynn
Ellen Flynn, daughter of Patrick and Mary — parents both indexed with surname Flynn.
0
