Marriage Act Transcriptions / Trascrizioni di Atti di Matrimonio

LucaMilvio

In fase di Indexing, le trascrizioni degli atti di matrimonio avvenuti in altro comune vanno, come penso, "processate" (così non si rischia di "perdere" il dato se non più recuperabile nel comune di origine, ma rischiando di avere un duplicato) oppure la si salta?

Se va registrato, vi è un qualche accorgimento da tenere per chiarire che si tratta, appunto, di trascrizione di atto precedente?

Grazie mille in anticipo per il vostro tempo.

EN:

When Indexing, if I find a marriage act transcription from a marriage happened in another "comune", do I need to process them as I think it's needed (in order not to lose the information if the original act can't be retrieved, but risking a duplicate), or do I need to skip it?

If it need to be processed, there's something specific I should do to "mark" it as a transcription of a previous act and not an original one?

Thanks a lot in advance for your time.

Cousin Vinny

That's a question you should probably ask in an indexing group. What do the project instructions say about what to index?

My own thought is that I don't think the indexing form has a space for entering where the marriage took place, so I don't know how you would mark it to make it stand out. Since Part II marriages might also include a marriage conducted in the town but not at the casa comunale, I think it makes sense to index all the records in Part II unless they are rectifications of previous records.

LucaMilvio

Thanks for the answer. I asked in an indexing group for this and another couple of questions I had about "special cases" (like deadbed marriages with child recognitions and other "Parte B" and "Parte C" entries)

The answer was always the same and along the line "Go on, index every marriage, no matter what and forget about every other infos or peculiarity... researchers will take care of everything else "

I'd say it is a pity that there's not a sort of "notes" field, at least, where the indexer could write down something extra, facilitating some more complex researches... it's a waste that someone already read the entry wholly, have a lot of infos... and no way to share them! :)

LWhitehead56

I totally agree about there needing to be a 'notes field' on indexing records. I can see it would slow things down and it would be difficult to filter through what information should be included in 'notes' but it is really frustrating to find a peculiar/interesting record and have no way to specify it as such.

Thank you for the work you do to index records. Your service is invaluable.