Name edit option missing, but date, event location, and birth place edit is possible.
I attached a source for Anna Buechley (GZGD-QJD). Though I edited the title and notes for my source for Anna, I could not edit the actual index for the document, which was the 1930 U.S. Census for Berlin, Somerset, Pennsylvania. There were options to edit date, event place and birth place but the name edit option was missing. How do I change the surname spelling from the incorrect "Bruchley" to the correct "Buechley?" in the indexed source. Where editing is possible,I have never seen the name edit missing, when places and dates are available for that document. Is this a mistake. or oversight? The surname needs to be changed. Shirley Rogers
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I don't know what determines the availability of index corrections for a particular field in a particular index, but I'd like to point out one fact: despite the error, the index has served its purpose, because you found and attached the record.
As I've said many times: indexes are not data. They are merely finding aids for data. It is a fact of life that they have errors.
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