Indexing Errors
Make it easier to correct any transcription error in indexing. Some have the wrong country for what the record is. Sometimes the sex is wrong. Names are misspelled. Sometimes mispellings or errors lead to the same record being duplicated.
being able to correct these is inconsistent and tedious. Make it more uniform to correct anything and everything and not so tedious
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@Harry Axel Rodas You may be seeing errors introduced by the place name standardization tool. There is a known problem that has been discussed here frequently. And the widespread errors introduced by that standardization need to be corrected in programming, not by individual users.
See, for example, this thread on Existing Historical Records Issues: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/116253/existing-historical-records-issues#latest
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The record should be indexed as written. If the name is written incorrectly by the enumerator, it should stay that way.
When you attach the record to a profile the correction can be made in the profile source list. But I urge caution: I have encountered many spelling corrections that are incorrect; a prior contributor got confused and conflated unrelated families, munging all their names to fit.
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