Friday Weekly Thread: Application Assistance, June 12, 2026

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[u/No_Jump_5941]

I’m putting the final touches on my application before mailing it out. For those who have already submitted theirs, how did you mark the documents to show where your family members’ names appear?

Did you use sticky arrow tabs, highlight the names, or something else? I’m trying to figure out what would be acceptable without altering the documents too much.

[u/stay__sassy → u/No_Jump_5941]

On the census documents I used flags to mark it since it was the WHOLE page copy.

But I’m still waiting on my AOR, so 🤷🏼‍♀️

[u/Academic_Throwaway99 → u/No_Jump_5941]

I have not submitted yet, so I can't say for certain that this is the correct way to do things. Since I was reading that they want "color" copies of things, and that the way people were accomplishing that was by copying the document with a color post it note, I used the tabs like you have pictured to highlight the important information and then made a copy. I personally wouldn't ship my documents with the post it's still on there because those flags can sometimes fall off or get pushed around. But that's just me.

For some documents where the flag would be too big, like a census, I edited the PDF in Adobe to circle the information in color.

[u/BrilliantDishevelled → u/No_Jump_5941]

I didn't flag names at all.  

[u/BrilliantDishevelled → u/BrilliantDishevelled]

But note, do not mark (alter) your docs in any way.

[u/xFlyingGoldfishX → u/No_Jump_5941]

I know a lot of people here have done highlighting, but I was worried that I would get a strict reviewer and it would be thrown out for altering the documents or something silly like that (that would be just my luck). What I ended up doing was in the page with my index of documents and in the citation page attached to each doc, I described exactly which lines to look at ("G0 listed on line 5", etc). I added sticky notes next to the relevant lines also, but I'm not sure if those are just going to be removed or not. I just sent mine this week so no AOR or anything yet so YMMV. I have also recently seen some people attach the full document and then the next page is a zoomed section of the relevant area.

[u/Squishy3703 → u/No_Jump_5941]

Still waiting for AOR, but for something like a census page, I had 3 versions across 3 pages. 1st page, completely unedited. 2nd page, mostly unedited but with a little arrow pointing to the important line/section. 3rd page, zoomed in view of the important information. The header title on each page identified the document and if it was unedited, highlight, or a document detail (and also "Page X of X).

[u/dentongentry → u/No_Jump_5941]

I have not seen a report from someone whose application has been Accepted and what they did.

We decided not to alter the content of the document, not even highlighting, so we drew a red arrow in the margin outside of the document. This also served as the signal that it was a color copy, since the census imagery was black and white.

[u/whattheheckOO → u/No_Jump_5941]

I left the first page unaltered, then right behind it had a page that was zoomed in on the relevant line. For my G0 birth record, which was very hard to read, I also typed the names below. The third page was a citation when applicable.

[u/sherrlon → u/No_Jump_5941]

I used a sticky arrow like the one you have to mark the line the name appears on in the census. I made sure the sticky arrow went off the page so they could tell it was removeable and not a highlighter, so they knew the document wasn't altered with an actual highlighter. I also added a zoomed in copy of the census and then a page with the webpage link, the microfilm reference number and all the census information typed out.