How can an event place be corrected in Family Search index records.
Reference Scotland 1841 Census Film # 004536148 Image 567.
I believe that the event place for the record image below is incorrect. The event place is listed as Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Parish 622 is parish number for Barony, and in particular this record is in the Quoad Sacra parish of Milton within Barony. Barony was a parish in the northern section of Glasgow. Hamilton is 15-20 miles or so south-east of Glasgow. This affects all the people in this household but it may have a wider ranging impact on numerous records. I would appreciate if someone could investigate this issue.
The image below is from a search of the 1841 Scotland Census - Thomas Ure
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Thanks, Paul. Saw the word original and thought it was the usual.
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@George Caldwell and @Áine Ní Donnghaile
I wonder if it is, in this case. Note that the Event Place and Event Place (Original) are the same. Also, I just checked and there (still) is a Milton Street in Hamilton. The referenced image does appear to be for Barony, but the screenshot does not contain a citation to show whether this refers to the same record.
ScotlandsPeople is down at present, as I was going to check if this could involve two persons of similar identity (one living at Barony, the other at Hamilton, in 1841).
Just checked the FMP index (no subscription at the moment) and the Thomas Ure, aged 30, is listed as resident of Hamilton. There is another Thomas Ure indexed at Barony, but shown as aged 10.
See also https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_queries/639a14974325a636f5b9ab63?locale=en - haven't yet had time to check out the different entries. FreeCEN only claims to have 97.6% of 1841 Lanarkshire records online, however, though no results for Hamilton.
Update - I apologise: https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_records/5a14ee7ef4040b9d6ef5f8dd/thomas-ure-1841-lanarkshire-barony-1811-?locale=en gives the evidence that there was also a Milton Street in Barony and this entry matches the record in the screenshot. So, both FamilySearch and Find My Past have got the "Hamilton" wrong!
In short, if FS put these records online courtesy of FMP, it's the latter that need to correct this.
Screenshot of extract of FMP index page, showing the error in placename is shown on that website, too:
As stated, if FMP provide the index information to FamilySearch, they need to make the correction.
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Thank you. It answers the question, unfortunately it does not correct the error. Do you know the procedure to contact FMP to get them to correct this?
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@George Caldwell On Find My Past, on every transcription/index/extract, there is a "More Actions" button. Hidden under that button is another button "Report an Error." Since it is the only option under More Actions, I wonder why they hid it there.
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