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Mis-index of gender; mis-index of event (calling it marriage when it's death and burial)

shecorwe
shecorwe mod
May 29 edited May 29 in Search

Transferring this post from the Germany Community. @Jane Schapka reported a problem with this record set URL: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-8TS4-48

In short:

This entire film needs to be examined and redone. The Indexer confused deaths and burials and called them marriages. Female names are coded as males, and male names are coded as females. Burials and dates are not translated or mentioned at all. She tried to edit the record, but was not able. She called FamilySearch, and they told her to write about it here.

https://community.familysearch.org/discussion/189126/mis-index-of-gender-mis-index-of-event-calling-it-marriage-when-its-death-and-burial-of-entire-g
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  • SerraNola
    SerraNola ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 31

    @Jane Schapka

    I checked the first 100 images on this film and all were correctly indexed by record type with the exception of this one image (26) that you referenced. Sometimes AI can get confused with the record type when both deaths and marriages are on the same page. Indexing a death record as a marriage would of course get some of the fields (such as gender) wrong because they wouldn't match.

    I re-indexed this page as death records. I couldn't change the title "Marriage" in the header, but it should attach correctly in Source Linker. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FTR-SHX7?lang=en

    Any other errors in data on this film will need to be user edited.

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