Calculated birth- after correction

starkeypd

I found an entire image that was indexed wrong. All the burial dates for these cemetery records were indexed wrong by 100 years. The were indexed as 1875, but should be 1975. I have corrected many of them and will finish them soon.

The indexed record also contains an age, so the system calculated a birth year. I noticed the the system is not recalculating the birth after the correction.

The first name on the image is Jacobus Brits, buried 2 Apr 1975, it still shows him born in 1800.

This is not a field that I can edit.

DGS- 107634135, image 31

Can something be done to correct the birth year.

Thanks

genthusiast

note: There are at least two Jacobus Brits in search results when searching that DGS. The one above is on page 31 the other is on page 22. I thought the search results were off - instead there were two results...

I concur - the death dates appear to be 1900s - not 1800s. But how to determine with two digit year - without a reference image showing specific range? The cemetery index shows:

"South Africa, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-13PY-2NP6?cc=4453927 : 15 March 2022), > image 1 of 1.

There should be a more careful method in pre-indexing/post-indexing processes to restrict dates to their correct date range (a bit fuzzy for this example without reference image - perhaps the cover showed a date range). The dates I viewed in this index were mostly 2-digit - I am uncertain whether the problem was created during indexing, etc. - but obviously needs to be resolved. Yes the records are 'findable' - if one happens to input just names without dates - but the index is not definitely correct - and should be corrected.

starkeypd

Thanks for your observations. I am correcting the burial and and locality (sometimes wrong). But can the calculated birth be changed?

genthusiast

No - not currently. I guess it's a waiting game - or your suggestion will prompt someone at FamilySearch to investigate and submit the collection for review/correction.

starkeypd

Same collection, image 236 has the burial and death dates off by 100 years. The locality is standardize to Johannesburg Cemetery, Johannesburg, Kern, California, United States.

Should be Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

Nolene Lossau

The Project name South Africa, Johannesburg, Cemetery Records, 1840-2019 is totally wrong and misleading -

Perhaps the engineers can change it - Johannesburg was only "founded" in 1886 so there will never be any burials in Johannesburg in the time frame 1840-1885

Some dates that some cemeteries were opened are:

Johannesburg Cemetery: 1886 (closed in 1890)

Braamfontein Cemetery: 1888

Private Cemeteries - Alberts Farm, Bezuidenhout Valley - cir 1888

New Roodepoort Cemetery: cir 1899

Kliprivierberg Cemetery: cir 1900

Brixton Cemetery: 1912

Brixton crematorium: 1918

Nancefield Cemetery (Soweto): 1920

Doornkop Cemetery: 1930s

Braamfontein Crematorium: 1932

Newclare Cemetery: 1934

West Park Cemetery: 1942

Avalon Cemetery: 1972

Waterval Cemetery: 2006

Diepsloot Cemetery: 2007

Knowing these dates may assist indexers to determine the correct 4 digit Year of the burials.