Did I break an Index?
I was trying to sort out the 1860 Census for the family of Daniel Roberts Turner (G7SZ-NQN), lines 8-19. Mr. Turner had 15 children across two wives. In 1860, secession was in the air and abbreviations were used for every member of the family. Worse, the Census page is badly faded; still, the Indexer could have done a better job at comparing glyphs to see, for example, what the Enumerator's "F"s, "J"s, etc. looked like.
Armed with the family Turner's Censuses from other years, I could confirm some of the middle initials were wrong and edited maybe five family members in the 1860 Census, changing their middle initial only in the "Given Name" field. I noted that this didn't change their "Name" field but was afraid to touch that one.
The next day, the index entries for just that family (even the ones I didn't touch) had vanished from the right panel (and is still gone today) - the families above and below it are still present.
Does anyone know how I performed this magic and how to undo it?
Answers
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@Eric8090 Please see this thread. It is a known bug.
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