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request to correct a record that was indexed

garywaynejrvest1
garywaynejrvest1 ✭
September 30, 2021 edited September 30, 2021 in Search

We have found that the person Marie West in these two records were not Index correctly. The correct name should be Marie Vest.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L8YW-JKW

marieVEST.jpg

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXL8-GPV?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=L8YW-JKW

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6YV1-9J?i=95&cc=1410397

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 30, 2021 edited September 30, 2021

    The best place to give this feedback is through the Feedback button that you see at the right-hand side of the first record.

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    The second record is just the image/index for the left-hand side of the image - so submitting the Feedback on the first record should be sufficient I believe.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 1, 2021

    The index-correction feature on FamilySearch is incomplete: not all collections (or fields within a collection) are correctable. This one appears to be among the non-correctable ones.

    They're supposedly planning to expand the feature to more records over time. In the meantime, keep in mind that the index is not the data: it is merely a finding aid for the data. You can console yourself that despite the error, the index did its job: you found the record.

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