Indexing
Good after noon,
I am trying to fix errors on your indexing. I did make a call and suggested several things. First, there are errors that are insulting to tribes and race. For example, some of these names have negra, meaning black as a race and not a surname. Furthermore, many of the records I am searching are historical too.
If there was a place to add nations of tribes in these records, it will definitely help. In fact, many of the records I am searching were conquistadors, pioneers, and among others that are in historical books. As you know, slaves and indigenous people did not have surnames either.
I have sent suggestions on many like added Friar to those who baptized. Sex too is not adaquetly indexing. Parabula is for female, and Parabulo is for male. Sometimes it is picking it up as a name too.
Titles should be added too as many were captains, lieutanants, and other important historical figures. Here is an example of many errors. https://www.familysearch.org/search/edit-record?record=/ark:/61903/1:1:6DT3-1FMM&pid=/ark:/61903/1:1:6DT3-1FMM&label=PR_NAME
Would be nice to be able to fix it and it show promptly as some name like auto is not name and suro is and sounds like defecate in spanish.
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For the purpose of this forum, it sounds like your suggestion is that the indexes of 19th-century and earlier church records in Spanish should include additional fields:
- Title
- Race / tribe
Is that what you meant to suggest?
If you have complaints about the way specific categories of records have been indexed, this isn't the right forum for that, my understanding is that the "Search" forum, https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/search , is a better place. (Although that may end up just being a waring to others no to rely on the index in certain cases!)
And if you have a correction to suggest to a particular record, there are oftwen two ways to do it...
A. Using the "Edit" button.
B. Using the "CLICK HERE TO REPORT IT" link.
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One other thing to watch out for in the index to that volume (ending at image 205 of that film)... the index for the christening date is often a date (and frequently just a year) in the 19th or 20th century, but all the cristening dates should actually be in the 17th century (from about 1662? at the beginning, to 1686 at the end).
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