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May 24, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Search
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  • muherland
    muherland ✭
    May 24, 2023 Answer ✓

    Hi,

    I am the indexing director for Oslo Stake, Norway.

    I have tried to edit some of the Norwegian records that have been indexed already and find it confusing that if I try to edit the e.g. event place like "Giørsg", the editing system only accepts standardized place names. The place names in the records are commonly a farm name and none of those are standardized yet. How may I edit these?

    How do I edit a birth record with incorrect gender? I.e. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:683F-FYPV

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 25, 2023

    Short answer: you can't.

    I made a plea almost a year ago to stop requiring standardized places in index correction, with examples of why it leads to further corruption of the database: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/125577/please-allow-transcription-corrections-in-indexed-placenames#latest.

    The index correction function only applies to some fields of some collections. The sex or gender is in my experience almost never included among the correctable fields.

    Note that the new "correct anything" function works very differently, but it has so far only been applied to some U.S. census indexes (that I know of). If or when it applies more broadly, I suppose we'll be able to fix these kinds of things, but that's probably years away.

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  • Maile L
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    November 4, 2023

    @muherland Great news. It appears that the record you cited now has the capability to be fully edited. This tool is being applied to collections a little at a time.

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