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Peterson, Kathie Mae
Peterson, Kathie Mae ✭
August 22, 2021 edited December 30, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

after the name Elizabeth M... it says (aka Sister Mary H....) Is Sister Mary a prefix?

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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 22, 2021 Answer ✓

    It is always better to share the batch code and/or link to get an accurate answer. When you click on Help and Share Batch you will see the instructions on sharing. The batch code is the letters/numbers in brackets that follow the title of the project at the top of your screen.

    Anyway - it sounds like Sister Mary is a nun. Sister is a prefix, Mary is a given name. Here is a link to a help article on how to index Catholic clergy members names since they can be complicated:

    https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-index-the-names-of-catholic-nuns-and-fathers

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  • SharonRHoenes
    SharonRHoenes ✭
    May 7, 2024

    This should not be such a hard question. It would be nice if someone would answer the question instead of just providing a link which does not work. The link would probably answer the question, but it doesn't work.

    Thanks for trying.

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  • erutherford
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    May 7, 2024

    Sister is a prefix and is not indexed.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 7, 2024

    @SharonRHoenes, I'm sure the Help Center link worked just fine when it was posted — three years ago.

    Unfortunately, said Help Center is not currently in the mood to cough up anything about indexing the names of Catholic nuns. (Or at any rate, I haven't come up with the right magic formula.) Such disappearances are always a risk, and you're right that life would be easier now if the article's relevant part had been copy-pasted into the reply, but I know I'm not the only one who's reluctant to do that: it's a slippery slope on the way to wading through frequently-repeated boilerplate.

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  • MaureenE123
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    May 7, 2024

    The following link is not a FamilySearch document, but it is talking about FamilySearch Indexing and it says

    The name of a Catholic nun recorded as “Sister Maria Magdalena or Katherine Baker”

    would be indexed as:

    o Given Names: Sister Maria Magdalena Or Katherine

    o Surname: Baker

    https://familytreewebinars.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/webinar-free7177.pdf

    From the URL it appears to date from July 2021.

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  • MandyShaw1
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    May 7, 2024 edited May 7, 2024

    • The key point here being (in case anyone is unclear on this) that nuns can and frequently do use different given names in their religious lives. @MaureenE123's example makes it very clear what the situation is, but without indexing the Sister as a prefix. (Just my 2 penn'orth.)
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