Why can we change the country of origin, age, and similar details, but not the person's name?
For instance, this person is not Tlya.
It's Ilija, a very common name for an ex-Jugoslav.
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Index correction is still incomplete on FamilySearch, and probably will be for a while yet. Some fields of some indexes are correctable, others are not. I'm not sure what determines which fields are included; this is the first one I've encountered that doesn't allow editing of the name. (The ones I deal with generally allow either nothing, or just the names and dates to be corrected.) FS is working continuously on expanding index corrections, so hopefully eventually they'll add the name fields from this index.
In the meantime, it is a fact of life that indexes have errors. Hopefully the misindexed given name will not prevent the record from being found. (I've found things using far worse misindexings.)
(Yugoslavia hadn't been invented yet when this record was created. He was probably an ex-Croatian.😐️)
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