Question re: names
So back in the early days of Indexing, before they did the AI stuff we're doing now, when you ran into a name that was obvious but could be 2 choices but not more than 2 choices sometimes people would write it in as 'Colden or Golden'. This is just an example, where the handwriting lets see it looked the like the first letter might be either a C or a G they might write it as 'Colden or Golden'. There's other situations where they did this where it was mostly pretty obvious that it had 2 be one of the two choices with other letters.
Do people still do this? Or did they phase it out?
https://www.familysearch.org/en/records/improve/tasks?action=EnhanceImageRecords&language=en&placeCode=339&placeName=New%20York&task=Name%20Correction&autoGenImageArk=3%3A1%3A33SQ-GP7L-D22
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If a letter in a name is unclear, as in Colden or Golden, it's never been the case in indexing that we could put "Colden or Golden". The "or" option was only used when the name was written more than once in two or more different ways on the document. But we could put "?olden" if unsure about a letter, or "*lden" if unsure about more than one letter. We can't do that anymore. We just have to guess or click on Unsure and let someone else guess.
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Sometimes I see names misspelled that I know the right spelling to because it is my family; can I correct this? Sometimes I have tried and it didn't take.
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BarbaraSlagle1, If you're reviewing the indexing done by AI, then, no, we don't correct what's written on the document.
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