1950 US Census
As I was looking at the 1950 US Census for my hubby's family, I noticed a big mistake. The Census taker didn't write very well and when it was indexed, there was a name that we were not familiar with. Alice F Sparrow. I looked on Ancestry and it said the same thing. Then I realized that there was no Alice. The name that should have been there was Glenn F Sparrow Male.
I do not know who I can ask to take Alice F off the record for sourcing because there is no Alice. I'm afraid that someone will link the name to the family and temple work will be done for someone who doesn't exist. I've been in the family for 40 years and I would know if there were an Alice. So, please take Alice F Sparrow off of the Source for the 1950 US Census. I'll check from time to time to see if it's been done.
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The 1950 census index on FS is fully user-correctable, so you're the best-positioned person for fixing this error.
I only found one exact match to "Alice F Sparrow" in the index, though, and the accompanying image clearly says "daughter" after the name. (The name itself is, shall we say, less clear.) Is this the entry you're talking about? https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FM3-KPVF
If that's the entry in question, and you're still certain that it is supposed to be Glen, you can click the Edit button in the middle of the top black stripe on that detail page to be taken to the new "edit everything" index-correction tool, where you can correct the name, sex, and anything else you find that's incorrect in the index.
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@lbsparrow, so just wondering, do you know the dob of Glenn from other sources?
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He is my brother-in-law and my hubby knows that there was no Alice in the family.
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