Can a source be deleted (not detached)?
A family was entered twice in the US 1950 census. In one instance, the image of the original document shows that the enumerator has struck through the entries. However, they were indexed. See: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F7Q-STMV
A few pages later, they were enumerated correctly. See: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F7Q-SLXT?_gl=1*181iibd*_gcl_au*MTIxNTgxNzYwMy4xNjkxMzcxOTI0
I edited the incorrect entry by deleting these folks from the index. However, the record still exists in Family Search and shows up as a hint for the relevant PIDs. See George Luzerne Hart, Jr. G97Z-CL1.
I believe the incorrect record should be deleted from the database. Is this possible?
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Deleting the record is trying to change the past. They may be crossed out, but those entries on sheet 80 still exist. If this were my family, I'd want to know about both pages, and I'd attach both to the relevant profiles.
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@EricShelton Hola muy interesante tu consulta!!Bienvenido a la comunidad FamilySearch
Te felicito por tu trabajo y deseo de indexar ,Te daré un articulo de conocimiento explicativo!
igual tu puedes sugerir ideas a FamilySearch en cuanto a eliminar de la Base de Datos!
https://youtu.be/7kJFN9g5J7c?si=h17BR5DLempNkxuB
Espero que lo que compartí sea de mucha ayuda ,sino es así puedes indicarme!
y no Dudes en consultar, éxitos en tu trabajo saludos.
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I agree with Julia. My aunt and uncle were enumerated twice in the 1940. It was apparently a recopying error by the enumerator as he listed part of the ED twice. I think it's important to keep both because they are both official records.
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EricShelton So when you say "I believe the incorrect record should be deleted from the database" you really mean that the entire sheet image be deleted from the collection? You said you already deleted the index record. There are a lot of other families on that sheet. Do you sincerely believe the information associated with the other families on that sheet is of no value?
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Of course I don’t mean to delete an entire sheet of the census! What I’m saying is that the census taker made a correction by crossing out names on one sheet and entering them on another. Although I edited the index, there is still a Family Search source for the crossed out names that shows up as a hint.
My understanding is that the 1950 census was automatically indexed by computer, so presumably the machine read the crossed out entries and they weren’t later manually corrected. It’s picking nits, to be sure, but I was just wondering if it were possible.
I’m also surprised some people think it’s important to keep what is so clearly a clerical error.
never mind.
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"... I’m also surprised some people think it’s important to keep what is so clearly a clerical error. ..."
But the interesting thing is the number of times that a clerical error gives us a clue to something important. Better that the error is presented to the user and they can decide what to do with it - ignore it or work out if there is any hidden meaning.
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