title/prefix?
after the name Elizabeth M... it says (aka Sister Mary H....) Is Sister Mary a prefix?
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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:
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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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Sister is a prefix and is not indexed.
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@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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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
From the URL it appears to date from July 2021.
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- 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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