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How do I correct a misspelled name?

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April 18 in Family Tree
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  • gramageni
    gramageni ✭
    April 18

    How do I correct a misspelled name? It isn't even close to my great great Grandmother's last name. Her name was McKeon and It is wrong on the page.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 18

    @gramageni

    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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