Talk:FamilySearch Indexing: US, Texas—Deaths, 1890–1976, Project Updates

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Since we are now indexing the name of the County, if no City or Town was entered, do we also enter the word "county" to differentiate it from a City or Town? No _____________________________________________________ Marital Status...  Sometimes the word  Child or Infant appears in the Marital Status field. How to index that? Index Child or Infant entries  as  Single   or  tab over and leave field empty? Here is example:  https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-25170-29063-90?cc=1983324&amp;wc=13682430

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Is the 1/16 update addressing the county issue of birthplace when only a county is recorded on the death certificate? If the county is not to be entered into the city/town field, could you please state that? I have not been entering the county and there has been a lot of discussion about this. &lt;fck:hr&gt;&lt;/fck:hr&gt;&lt;/fck:hr&gt;

Slide#7 in project instructions explains that a woman's listed middle name MAY be her maiden name and the correct way to ascertain and to index this if this is the case. However, I have been doing this and the arbitrators are NOT following this instruction and changing the individual's name back to read as if it were just the middle name. Could you please make this an individual update on the first page so it is more prominent and likely to be followed by the arbitrators. I have been corrected for this on EVERY batch I have submitted this way and I have already done more than 50 of them. Thank you.

I agree. The directions are clear on this and the arbitrators are not reading them nor following them.

On the subject of Maiden names, Called support on the subject because arbitrators are not following project instructions. This is the response, "It is the custom in some families to  not give female children middle names in the hope that they will use their maiden name after they marry.  It should be indexed with her given name not in the surname field??????  Totally conficts with Project Instructions.  My question, which is correct and if the instructions have changed. can you do an update?