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Revise all death records indexes for Hungary

Bela Varkonyi
Bela Varkonyi ✭
December 28, 2022 edited December 28, 2022 in Search

There is a systematic error of misreading dates, people names, etc. It is difficult to find a single correct indexing. But I cannot correct the wrong indexing since editing is not enabled.

There is also a big problem with incorrect estimated birth years, since the indexers do not understand neither Hungarian, nor Latin. So they cannot make a distinction between years, months, and days. Now it is a terrible mess... Sad...

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 28, 2022

    If you're talking about the (probably-computer-indexed) records that showed up suddenly this summer, the ones I've seen (for example https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6NSR-GW59) have been editable, at least partially. The age and the estimated birth year derived from it cannot be corrected, but the images are available and linked to the index, so it's possible to find and use the correct data, despite the finding aid's flaws.

    (The reason some people in the Hungarian genealogical community have concluded that the newly-published indexes were at least partly computer-generated is that there has never been any sign of these registers in FS's Indexing section.)

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