Are you aware that Swedish record hints- titles and descriptions are incorrect, Is there a fix?
I have found hundreds of Swedish record hints that are incorrect. On the actual record surnames for the children are NOT listed. On the indexed data the surnames are NOT listed. Both of these are correct.
However, on the record hint title the mother's maiden name is listed as the child's surname and on the description for the entire record, all the children are listed with the mother's maiden name. Which is incorrect!
I have called historical records regarding this issue and was told that I needed to give feedback on every record that I find that is incorrect. This takes a lot of time.
Naming in Sweden is difficult enough without throwing in another option. One example Carl Herman Lundström G8XG-DGQ — on 9 record hints his surname is listed as Nilsdotter/Nilsdr which is his mother's maiden name. Only one hint lists his surname correctly. If 9 out of 10 records list Nilsdotter and only 1 lists Lundstöm which one would a user go by and enter on FamilySearch? That's a problem.
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I think this is closely related to this discussion: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/164692/why-do-some-children-get-the-mothers-surname-added-when-the-surname-is-not-specified-in-the-source#latest
The specific index referenced there turned out to come from a different site, but that doesn't appear to apply to your examples (such as https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLFL-TF76). But my theory of some sort of automated "fill down" process does seem to explain the problem: when these records list a family, it's inevitably the mother's surname immediately before the children, since the father is always listed first. If the index post-processing has a surname-filling function designed for things like passenger lists and censuses, where ditto marks were commonly used, then it will predictably wreak havoc on these household lists, where the missing surnames do not stem from unindexed ditto marks.
The one positive thing here is that the index is editable: for your relatives (or for those entries that you have the stamina or motivation to tackle), you can correct the children's names in the index. (I'd be sorely tempted to simply delete their surnames.)
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The indexed data does not list the mother's maiden name as the children's surname so you cannot remove it. The only thing you can change is the title, by removing the surname following the child's name. It would need to be done for each child, for each record. It does not remove the surnames from the description.
Thank you for your response.
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Oy, this is weird: the search results and the index editor have it correct, with just the given names for Karl Herman. It's just the index detail page that appends the incorrect patronymic — but because the index editor is already correct, we can't fix the index detail page.
I've submitted feedback to that effect using both the editor's and the search's Feedback tabs (since the page with the error doesn't have one).
The even weirder part is that the error does not appear to be universal: I did a search and checked several of the results (such as: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLFL-8ZMD, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLFL-1XWJ, and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLFL-VMWK), and only Karl Herman had his mother's patronymic.
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It seems the Swedish Household Examination Books are one step closer to being fixed. When searching by given name it appears correctly in the search results. (Or at least the random ones I tried were correct.) I noticed this last week, except the incorrect maternal surname was also coming up. Now I am only able to bring up the given names of the children with no surname, exactly as they were indexed. Yes, the index detail page is still wrong but at least we're moving in the right direction.
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I removed the surnames from the titles, trying to figure out what could be done. Some of them have been corrected as there are fewer with the mother's maiden name. I returned the others as they were. Not a good idea to change my example.
I appreciate your feedback.
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