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Correct information/names function disabled?!

Rui Barão da Cunha
Rui Barão da Cunha ✭
June 9 in General Questions

I have recently found that the information/names correction function, which appears when you are researching registries in FamilySearch, has been disabled. Is this happening:

A- Just to my user?

B - To all Portuguese users?

C - To all profiles automatically scanned from Portuguese records, that you cannot show?

I am asking this because when searching, I come across some errors generated due to complicated calligraphy. Other times I am seeing more than one person file indexed to one profile.

Tagged:
  • search records
  • correcting errors
  • Historical Records image restrictions
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  • AnneLoForteWillson
    AnneLoForteWillson mod
    June 12

    @Rui Barão da Cunha I attempted to follow your issue but at least on the records I looked at, the Edit mode is available. One example is: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:65VW-GSZL?lang=en

    image.png

    As you can see the EDIT button is blue and works. If this example works for you, please provide an example of one of these civil registries where the edit is disabled.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 12

    @Rui Barão da Cunha Indexes can only be edited if an image is attached to the indexed records. If there is no image, the Edit button will be grayed out and not function:

    Screenshot 2025-06-12 at 11.10.34 AM.png

    This is not new but has always been the way things have worked.

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