How can we get a transcription error for a christening record corrected?
In the records on Family Search, my great-grandfather's name is incorrectly transcribed, as well as that of his father.
The record is: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWNV-1W5
It should be Charles Rowland Peaslee.
His father's name was Stephen M Peaslee.
Can this be corrected?
Thank you, Suzanne Carter
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If you hover the mouse above "EDIT" you will receive a message that the record cannot be edited. To be editable, an image is required to be alongside the record, which can be used to highlight such errors. Unfortunately, this record does not fall into that category.
All you can do is add a note of the error(s) if / when you add the record to the Sources sections of their Family Tree IDs.
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In addition to following Paul's suggestion of adding a correction note to the source citation, you can console yourself with the fact that you found the record anyway.
(Keep in mind that the index is not the data. It is merely a finding aid for the data.)
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'Thank you for the fast replies, Paul and Julia!
There's so much information available now via the internet, and I come across a lot of errors like this. I guess it's the trade-off we make for not having to take years to find out ancestral information from dusty old records in farflung places!
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