Canada East Census 1861 (partially indexed) can't add new names

E Bastien

Hi, I was trying to add new names to the "Canada East Census 1861" (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LC5-NH?view=index) but they failed to be displayed afterward. Now I just can't add anything new. Here are the records:

Line 42: Felix Veilleux - Male - Head of Family - Age=43 - Occupation = Cultivateur
Line 43: Anatalie Pomerleau- Female - Wife - Age=41
Line 44: Joseph Veilleux Male Age=20
Line 45: Charles Veilleux Male Age=16
Line 46: Francois Veilleux Male Age=14
Line 47: Philomène Veilleux Female Age=12
Line 48: Fortunat Veilleux Male Age=10
Line 49: Victoria Veilleux Female Age=8
Line 50: Napoleon Veilleux Male Age=6

And the youngest son of the family is on the next page:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6LCP-QF?view=index

Line 1: David Veilleux Male Age=3

They were all born in Lower Canada and are Romain Catholic.

Thanks for the help
(name removed)

Julia Szent-Györgyi

Since this is an already-published index, your query would probably be better placed in the Search category. That's unfortunately as close as this Community gets to a category for the index-editor-and-viewer.

I say "unfortunately" because said editor-and-viewer continues to be plagued by many, many bugs, some of them with symptoms or consequences so dire that I call them gremlins. One of said failings is that the "+Add" button often doesn't work. At all. It goes through the motions, and cheerfully lies to the user that it has done as it was told, but none of that is actually added to the database. All of the user's work just disappears into the ether.

(I have now had the "+Add" button actually work once: I added a parent who was missing from an indexed baptism, and to my utter shock, when I went back to the entry the next day, it was still there. However, that has proven to be a one-off: subsequent tries of similar additions have failed to show up later.)

Note that extreme caution is advised when trying any index correction more complicated than the spelling of a name: one of the gremlins apparently eats permissions, meaning that if you manage to attract it, the entry — or the entire family! — may disappear from the index, instead of being corrected. Edits that affect the structure of the index, such as by attempting to combine a family across images, are the most likely to attract this gremlin.

E Bastien

Thanks Julia for the quick answer. These type of quirks are to be expected in such a large relational database, yet they must be quite frustrating over the long run… Any chance that posting the same question over the Search category would result in a different outcome? From your answer I get the impression that it's a dead-end until they fix these issues.

The original indexing, that was managed by the one of the Canadian federal agency, is accessible freely online and it displays the correct information in that specific case. Too bad I can't link those instead.

Regards
Eric

Áine Ní Donnghaile

You can link an external source, @E Bastien. I do it all the time. You'll find instructions for one method here: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-add-an-outside-source-to-family-tree

E Bastien

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Ashlee C.

@E Bastien Mod note: Community is a public online forum. For your privacy, your post was edited to remove a name that is not part of your username. Please see the Community Code of Conduct for more details.

Also, your question was moved to the Search category.