For anyone who hasn't followed the search link from your volunteer login
page, here's your opportunity. Instead of logging in, go to the corner and use
the link that says, 'KyVitals Home'. From there, in the same corner, use the
orange link 'Search'.
You can find this certificate by using the basic search, all counties,
surname 'Turner Colins', no given name. No changes have been made to the file as
yet.
I've also checked several other certificates for that year and the comma
between Turner and Colins is not part of the printed form.
Bear in mind that Sheryl has the final word on all decisions.
Janice
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Sheryl Slaughter writes:
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It was not uncommon during this time period for given
names to be quite
lengthy. I have one entire family in rural Kentucky where the male and female
children all had at least 5 names.
I have not seen this certificate. If this certificate shows a hyphenated
name, we can certainly accommodate that. The surname fields are set up to accept
apostrophes, hyphens and spaces in addition to alphabetic characters.
That said, if the certificate does not show a hyphen, the surname would
simply show as Colins. I hesitate to try interpret circumstances except in
unusual cases because we just don't have much to go on. The fact that the
father's
surname is shown as Turner will help researchers find this person.
I would enter into the given name field:
james k polk turner
and into the surname field:
colins
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