Edits to Published records
Some of us have found errors in Wyoming, Rhode Island, Delaware, New Hampshire, Vermont and South Dakota. However, these records were already published. How will these changes be made to the public records? We are apparently making corrections to these.
Also, what do we do if we find errors in the census to our families after they are published? We are using what the enumerators found, and the hand-writing sometimes can be difficult by reading names and addresses. Researchers sometimes have a better idea of what their families record should be, as it's their particular family.
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@MSCHNEP, you stated that you have found errors in those states which were errors before they were published. So they were errors of the AI indexing.
First of all, I would suggest that you report what you are seeing on the main page of the 1950 census in Feedback and they may be able to fix whatever you are talking about in the publication of those states.
Depending on the errors that you are seeing, most can be corrected at this time. Since these have been published on FamilySearch, then they can be corrected when searching for a person or just click on that state in the 1950 page and you will be taken to a map to find the page you want to be able to do corrections. From there you can also attach the record to an individual and be able to do the corrections.
Each entity who has published the AI index, or made available the 1950 census will have their own ways of being able to do corrections.
Below is kind of a step-by-step for seeing the published census records and on the right side of the last URL you can see the information and then be able to attach it to one of your people in FS and be able to do corrections there also.
After attaching the published record to your person, you can edit the attachment and then you can also click on the URL in that attachment which will take you to where you can do the edit on the document. The two screen shots are below to show this.
I hope that I have answered your concerns sufficiently! I may have misunderstood what you are wanting to know, but without an explanation of exactly the mistakes you have seen, it is hard.
Thank you for reaching out.
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