The record that mentions Simona Garza GKRV-7GQ is missed indexed.
Hello, Could you please help us with this. Would you please correct the indexing for grandmother Simona Garza.
The record that mentions Simona Garza GKRV-7GQ is missed indexed. It is missed indexed as Simo Na Garza and also the sex is listed as Male but should be Female. She is married to Hermenegildo Pena GarzaL8SS-CRX.
This is their marriage record.
This is link to the index that incorrect.
Thank you very much,
Cynthia Crews
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Repaired URL: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6DVJ-S65X
I've edited it, @cynthia7,403, but you could have done it. On the right side is the noteThis record was indexed by a computer. Use the Edit button above to make corrections.
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What Áine said. Also, while I sympathize with the desire to always correct such things (see "Someone is wrong on the internet!"), keep in mind that what indexers (i.e. the computer, in this case) produce is not the data. It is merely a means of helping you find the data — which purpose it demonstrably served just fine, since you found the marriage record.
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi I agree with you about the purpose of indexing being to permit retrieval, but it seems to me that the metadata is presented by the FS UI (e.g. source linker) as sufficiently trustworthy for people to just accept it into FSFT without checking every field for indexing errors. Going back and fixing individual records' metadata after the horse has bolted probably /is/ fairly pointless. In the end this (and it clearly applies to Ancestry and others just as much as FS) is about an obsession with quantity over quality.
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@MandyShaw1, I believe it unfortunately goes much deeper than just quantity versus quality: because indexes are computer-parseable, FS (and Ancestry, and every genealogy website I've poked at) treats them as if they were the primary data, with the actual documents (or images thereof) as optional secondary hangers-on. This is Exactly Backwards from proper genealogical (or actually, all types of research) practices, but fixing it would take major advances in handwriting-OCR, along with a total revamp of the underlying structure of the entire website, so I don't expect it to change in my lifetime.
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You're right on all fronts of course... just one more point though, it's not just about the technology, it's (perhaps mainly) about someone(s) owning the data (documents and metadata) and how it is used, end to end, deciding what processes and resources are needed (and which ones aren't), and then making it all happen. As you say, unlikely.
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