Incorrect location showing up on index information, how to fix?
I was flipping through the 1840 Census for Lawrence County, Illinois to find an ancestor. I found him and went to attach the record to his profile, but it is showing as Lawrence, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States?
It would not let me edit/correct it and kept giving me an error message. I looked at others on different pages, and they are the same. I am wondering if the whole set it like this. Here is the link for the beginning of the roll: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYTY-SXZL?i=1&wc=31SJ-RSK%3A1588665988%2C1588665925%2C1588665902&cc=1786457
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@Pam Gille
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Pam
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I am "Tagging" this 'Question' of yours, in the 'Group' being "FamilySearch Places", in this "Community.FamilySearch" Forum, to the 'Group' being "Indexing Chat", in the Forum; so that, the members of that group had any thoughts/ideas.
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Brett
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@Indexing Chat
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ps: Another place to make/raise this matter would be the (New) "IDEAS" Forum
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https://community.familysearch.org/s/idea/Idea/Default
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Thank you, I was not sure where to ask the question to get it answered.
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@Pam Gille This is a question that should be addressed with FamilySearch support to let them know. We are not able to change already published records at this present time, but hopefully in the future this will be a possibility.
If you live in the United States, please call 1-866-406-1830, or go to https://www.familysearch.org/help/ for other ways to contact support in your area. Here is a help article for more detailed information.
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Two items here:
1) Are you using the Safari browser to view these images? Please note that the Safari browser's ability to edit and save indexed data has been broken now for a couple of months. It was reported a while back but has never been fixed. You cannot highlight the change areas (step 2) or Save the changes you made. If you are using Safari, try a different browser. I always have to change to Firefox in order to edit index data.
Note however, that even if you are able to edit the indexed value, you're sorta up the creek with this record as far as highlighting goes since the correct state name is not even on the images that were indexed (it's on the right hand side of the ledger. The side without the names listed on it).
2) If you will notice, the "Event Place (Original from index file)" in the record is correct. It is Lawrence. And the entire image set is for the 1840 Census in THAT part of Illinois--the titles on the image set already shows that. Unfortunately, FamilySearch has started inventing and adding extra data to the index sources in order to provide "more accurate" location and date values. As you can see, that process didn't even account for the fact that the entire image set is from Illinois and NOT Oklahoma.
FamilySearch needs to fix what got messed up here. Every single index entry for all 85 of those images likely needs to be reprocessed using the CORRECT state name for those census pages instead of Oklahoma.
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