remove incorrect sources?
While researching my family, I found two census sources that mention several family members together in a household. The problem is, it is two copies of the same source document, but one of them has been interpreted with the surname quite wrong. I'd like to know:
How can I request the incorrect interpretation of the document deleted from the system?
If it cannot be deleted, can it be marked as being incorrect and link to the more correct one?
Incorrect: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLP5-G4R (top of page clear)
More correct: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLPR-9CM (top of page blurry)
The problem is that neither of the documents is 100% correct. The family surname is "Frise" (starting on line 21). It's understandable that the census taker could have mistakenly written it as "Frice", because that's how the name is pronounced. Unfortunately, the record interpreted as "Frice" has a scanning mistake at the top.
The other document was scanned well, but the surname was interpreted as "Frire". Again, I can understand that the census taker's handwriting isn't the clearest, but the letter in question looks more like "c" than "r". The letter "c" can be seen in the given name "Garance" (on line 22). The document that has the surname misinterpreted also has that name misinterpreted as "Garanse".
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That's a U.S. census, so you can correct those indexing errors yourself, but even if you couldn't, you could still use the records. The index isn't the data; it's merely a way for you to find the data more easily than by paging through hundreds of images -- and it served that purpose admirably.
To correct the names, go to the index detail pages (what you linked to in your post) and click the Edit button in the middle of the black stripe at the top.
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Hi, Julia.
Thank you for the suggestions. I'd forgotten that these indices were editable. I think it would be better to have the duplicate documents removed, but at the very least, I can correct their contents.
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