Home› Welcome to the FamilySearch Community!› FamilySearch Help› Indexing

Naturalization records and widows

Jon Steele
Jon Steele ✭
August 4, 2021 in Indexing

My first time seeing this (newbie indexer :) ) On this naturalization record, it was recorded with the spouse attached, but they are deceased. Do we add the information or mark it blank?

Batch: M3ZF-QGL

2nd image.

Thank you for your help!

0

Best Answers

  • Dellory Matthews
    Dellory Matthews ✭✭✭✭
    August 4, 2021 edited August 4, 2021 Answer ✓

    Thanks for including the share batch code.

    Yes, you index the spouse's given name: Enno. It doesn't matter that he died before Maria completed this form.

    You have a typo on the surname in record one. There's a missing o. It should be "Jacobowitz Or Jacovowicz".

    I just love the way some of these records have name variations. That's valuable information for researchers. Many immigrants changed their names as part of the naturalization process.

    1
  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 4, 2021 Answer ✓

    That is an interesting catch on the Field Help. Both of the examples show that we use United States of America. I think they are just trying to make the point that if United States of America isn't somewhere on the document, then you only expand the abbreviation US to United States.

    0

Answers

  • Jon Steele
    Jon Steele ✭
    August 4, 2021 edited August 4, 2021

    Thank you for the reply!

    Just for clarification - edited: clarification received.

    Thanks for catching the typo. Note to self - stop indexing before you're too tired ;)

    It really is great information with the name variations. Though I've come across some name variations that really don't make sense - like a whole new name variation :)

    0
  • Jon Steele
    Jon Steele ✭
    August 4, 2021 edited August 4, 2021

    Deleted. Found the edit post button :)

    0
Clear
No Groups Found

Categories

  • 28.3K All Categories
  • 22.7K FamilySearch Help
  • 111 Get Involved
  • 2.6K General Questions
  • 420 FamilySearch Center
  • 431 FamilySearch Account
  • 4.1K Family Tree
  • 3.2K Search
  • 4.5K Indexing
  • 589 Memories
  • 6.1K Temple
  • 304 Other Languages
  • 34 Community News
  • 6.4K Suggest an Idea
  • Groups