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How to bulk fix wrong year in a metric book?

DmitriyBryndin
DmitriyBryndin ✭
December 9, 2024 edited March 19 in Search

There are two metrical books for the same place and year. One is a copy of another and has a typo in the year made by a copier 200 years ago. Both are indexed, and thus the very same records differ by one year. While searching, you never know what result you're getting.

How to bulk fix the index for one book? Too many records to do it manually.
If it's hard to do in the database directly, is there an API available?

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Correct book lists 1819
First page: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSS9-SSDT-P
Last page: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSS9-SSDL-T

Incorrect one says 1818 in the header of the 1st page (the title page, one page before says 1819 correctly)
First page: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSSM-YQFS-P
Last page: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSSM-YQ8H-S

Check indexes for both to see they are the same records.

Tagged:
  • Errors in documents
  • Indexing error
  • Data Error
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  • GFre
    GFre ✭✭✭
    December 15, 2024 Answer ✓

    Hi @DmitriyBryndin. On one of those links, click the feedback button on the left side. Choose an emoji and then please copy your post there. As I understand it, there's something of a backlog for correcting errors, but they'll get to it eventually.

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  • DmitriyBryndin
    DmitriyBryndin ✭
    December 16, 2024 edited December 16, 2024

    @GFre I would, except the "feedback" button is broken and was like that for a while. No idea what to do about it, nor how to report bugs. Any ideas are welcome.

    There is another bug I want to report, but with "feedback" being broken and no bug-reporting system, I just posted it here on this forum, hoping devs will see it.

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  • DmitriyBryndin
    DmitriyBryndin ✭
    December 16, 2024

    @GFre I saw your other reply, it's indeed the ad blocker.

    I see the call to sentry.io, and it seems to be blocked. I bet the same is happening to most of the users.

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