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Is it possible to view online the documentation that supports the data relating to my maternal grandmother? I just now confirmed a match for her when adding to the data for my relatives but there were three items that I would question. The Social Security Death Records site has not had her day of death, giving it only as "June 1975." I wasn't at her funeral but my mother gave me one of the small folded cards provided by the funeral home and that shows the date of death as June 29, 1975. I have that card in front of me now and while there could be inaccuracies I would like to know for sure. Also, I would like to see evidence for her birthplace, which I had heard was Hammond, at the farm of her father (George P. King). There may not even have been a birth certificate issued in those years, and in those cases I think that the state maintained a "Registry of Birth" as a substitute. As for the place of death I had thought that it was at her home in Hammond, and the match information showing it as Ogdensburg may thus be where she was taken for a coroner's determination of cause of death and an estimated time; that's a significantly larger community than the village of Hammond.
If it is easier for this information to be supplied as e-mail attachments rather than website URLs that I wouldn't have direct access to, that would be fine. I will greatly appreciate any help that you can give me.
Sincerely,
Donald F. Pond, Jr.
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How or if you can view or change information depends greatly on the specifics, and it's not clear from what you wrote exactly which part of FamilySearch's vast sprawl you were looking at.
If you're talking about your grandmother's profile on the collaborative Family Tree, then you can correct any errors and fill in any gaps yourself. What's there is only what other contributors just like you have added. Hopefully, they also added the source of their information, but if not, you can ask the contributor. You can contact anyone who has made a change to your grandmother's (or any other deceased person's) profile by finding that change and clicking the user's name. On the card that pops up, click the blue "message" button to send a message using FS's internal messaging system.
If you're talking about an indexed historical record, then whether or how you can make corrections again depends on the specifics: some fields of some indexed record collections can be edited by users like you and me. If the feature is available for some part of an index entry, then the "Edit" button will be enabled in the middle of the black stripe at the top of its details page.
Whether or how you can look at an image to go with an indexed record also depends on the specifics. The Social Security Death Index, for example, has no images: its data goes straight into the index database, with nothing on paper to make an image of. Other collections, such as U.S. censuses or Ellis Island passenger manifests, have images associated with the index entries, and those images are freely available online on FamilySearch. Yet other collections, such as most Illinois vital records, have only the index available from home for public (non-LDS) accounts; sometimes, those images can be viewed at a Family History Center and/or at an Affiliate Library. And some collections have no images available online at all, due to privacy laws or other contractual restrictions. Also, privacy or other restrictions sometimes apply to part of a collection; if so, they are enforced at the "film" or "digital image group" level, i.e. if there's one restricted image on a film or in a group, then the entire film or group is restricted.
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