My key board doesn't have a key for squiggles!

LarryClark43

yes I am asking more strange questions.

I am working on US, Virginia—Marriage Records, 1853–1935[M3WV-X3L] .

I have reviewed the document, then filled in the obvious, then reviewed the writing helps, then gone through again and have done my best to decipher the squiggles.

At this point do I submit the batch or is there some way I should mark the names that can't possibly be right?

https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/a8d58150-522b-45f1-bd0c-5b33a4f26811

Dellory Matthews

Great question!

Answer: we use wildcards for what we can't decipher. ? = one unknown letter and * = multiple unknown letters.

Full information here:

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-index-unreadable-information

Also, you will find helpful information in the General Indexing Guidelines in the Project Instructions.