name in parentheses
I'm indexing a marriage register and I come across X.X. & Abcd Efghi. Above the surname is another surname in parentheses. Does it go with the surname in the record above? Is it the wife's surname in the one I'm working on? If so, it's the first surname for a wife I've come across.
Sophie
Best Answer
-
I think Mrs. Parrish may have remarried and her second married name was placed on the record. In the 1920 census of Pleasant Grove, Norfolk, Va, Irene C Charlton is the wife of William E Charlton. In the household lives stepsons, Charles Parrish (16), Clifford Parrish, and Bernard Parrish.
So, I would index her as Surname: Parrish Charlton.
It really wouldn't matter if you had indexed them in reverse. As long as both names are in the surname column they are searchable. A researcher could edit the names when they found them and sorted through the details. I was just making sure that Charlton went with Mrs. Parrish and not the line above. It seemed like this scribe put an arrow pointing to which set of parents the name in parenthesis belonged and it was missing here.
Just another note: I wouldn't index the color or race for the brides on this image. Since there is only one column, the color or race is only indexed in the husband's race field per the field help:
If only 1 color or race column or pair of columns was listed but was not clearly indicated as either the husband’s or the wife's color or race, index the color or race in the Husband's Color or Race field, not in the Wife's Color or Race field.
1
Answers
-
We really need to see your image before we can tell you what's what. Your batch code is in the brackets after the name of the project. Copy that and paste it here and then we can see what you're talking about.
1 -
please share the image of your batch. thank you!
1 -
@RobinsonSonyaJohnson An interesting question! We would love to look at it with the Shared batch code as suggested by others.
1 -
I called a friend, a fellow member, and was able to share with her. She's been doing indexing a long time, and this is my first.
[M3WV-MND] is the batch, and it is on the 24th line, I believe. Charles Parrish's parents. We have decided that Mrs. Parrish insisted that her maiden name be included. I would have done same. :-)
0 -
Thanks for the help. Things sure were biased against women back then. But even worse, earlier, when women weren't listed in the births of their children.
1
