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A problem I hope you can fix Creeley, Weld, Colorado

Judy Crook_1
Judy Crook_1 ✭✭
September 18, 2021 edited September 18, 2021 in Search

In the 1885 census, the word Greeley has been misinterpreted as Creeley. Since this error applies to many records, it would be useful to fix them all at once instead of fixing them one by one. Here is an example: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8WK-R3V

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  • N Tychonievich
    N Tychonievich mod
    September 18, 2021

    @Judy Crook_1 Currently, we don't have a way to fix indexing errors such as you reported. Looking at several pages of the census around the one you reported, it does look like Greeley got morphed into Creeley across-the-board. For now, use the Edit option to make corrections for your own ancestors. The folks who work with FamilySearch Record Collections are exploring options for better ways to deal with large-scale errors. Hopefully, in the not too distant future, we will see some updates to allow us to fix these sorts of things for more than one record at a time.

    https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-fix-indexing-or-transcription-errors-in-historical-records


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  • Judy Crook_1
    Judy Crook_1 ✭✭
    September 18, 2021

    Thanks for your reply. I was previously told to report errors like this one in the forum. I have no expectations that the error will ever be corrected.

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