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lbsparrow
lbsparrow ✭
June 26, 2023 edited July 26, 2024 in Search

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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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 26, 2023 edited June 26, 2023 Answer ✓

    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

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    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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  • Chas Howell
    Chas Howell ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 27, 2023 edited June 27, 2023 Answer ✓

    @lbsparrow, so just wondering, do you know the dob of Glenn from other sources?

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  • lbsparrow
    lbsparrow ✭
    June 27, 2023

    He is my brother-in-law and my hubby knows that there was no Alice in the family.

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