Educating indexer who makes systematic error
In my Review process I encountered an indexer who systematically calculates and register events' "year" data. He/She indexes brilliantly, but it is rather annoying to correct this undocumented data, which - if not corrected - might mislead researchers.
An example: death record shows the birth year and age of the deceased person (eg. 25 Jan 1904 age 74). The indexer register in the field "birth year": 1830. However this could be 1829 as well, so the data is unsure, therefore should not be registered.
It is OK to correct it during review, but when you have this problem hundreds of times, it gets annoying, especially when everything else is correct.
Can the FamiliSearch team identify the indexer and educate to follow the proper indexing?
Kind Regards
Zsolt
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It is always best to share a batch so others can see what you are seeing.
In any event, you can notify FamilySearch that the indexer, (or reviewer - because we simply don't know if these have already been reviewed once before we grab them), might need more instructions.
With the batch open, click on the Help Tab, go to Labs. There you will find a form, Reasons to Reindex Batch. Once you activate the form (following the instructions on how to do so), you will be able to allow the proper department at FamilySearch to see the problem and possibly communicate with the indexer if they see a need. However, you must send the batch back for reindexing and can keep the indexed data or delete it. But, since everything else is correct, there would be no reason not to keep the indexed data.
Chances are good that you already know that you can globally correct this field and render it blank using the copy text forward tool (6th icon from the right). This will also copy Ctrl/Cmd + B forward and render the Birth Year blank for every record in one or two seconds making it not so annoying!
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Thank you, Melissa. I was not aware that the copy text forward also copies the Ctrl+B (blank) field as it is not a text. Everyday learning :-)
Kind Regards
Zsolt
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This is why we need and have reviewers! Thank you for correcting these mistakes!
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