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JuanZuluaga3
JuanZuluaga3 ✭
July 27, 2023 edited September 30, 2024 in Search

Apologies if this is not the right place to report this.

This volume is entirely (371 pages) about marriage records ("Matrimonios"), but they where misclassified as burials. As a result, a large set of people have been given a wrong date of death. Please take a look, thank you!

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"Colombia, registros parroquiales y diocesanos, 1576-2018," database with images, FamilySearch

(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9PT-MS99-1?cc=1726975 :

12 March 2022), >

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  • transcription error; wrong category;
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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 1, 2023 Answer ✓

    The error is more likely to have been caused in pre- or post-processing, not in indexing.

    You can request a correction to the catalog by sending a detailed email to books@familysearch.org

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 13, 2023 edited August 13, 2023 Answer ✓

    See https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-request-a-correction-to-the-familysearch-catalog As I said, I've used it myself.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 1, 2023

    The film is correctly identified as marriages in the catalog (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2117576), and the fields in the index are typical of marriages, not burials -- when was the last time you encountered a burial record that identified the spouse's parents? -- so this appears to be some sort of metadata error. I have no idea who to contact about those.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 1, 2023 edited August 1, 2023

    I'd still try the Books@FamilySearch.org email - I've found that address useful for labeling issues in images among other errors. In fact, one of the replies I received indicated the issue I had reported was a metadata issue.

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  • JuanZuluaga3
    JuanZuluaga3 ✭
    August 13, 2023
    https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/522157#Comment_522157

    The email books@familysearch.org seems to belong to an office dealing with book donations.

    Do you know of any other email that I can write to?

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