Introducing surname spelling errors

LegacyUser

Phyllis Ericson said: Family Search changed the spelling of the surname to an incorrect spelling. The correct spelling is now listed as the alternate spelling.
This is introducing errors into these records. Not what we want.
How do I delete the incorrect spelling???

LegacyUser

Heather McPhie said: Click on the incorrect spelling. That should open a box that has an edit button. Click edit and then correct the spelling of the surname. All of Family Tree is open/edit so that anyone can change anything.

LegacyUser

Ron Tanner said: What was the PID of this person so I can see the change and check on who did it?

LegacyUser

Ron Tanner said: What was the PID of this person so I can see the change and check on who did it?

Brian Benington

None of the response to the above are helpful -- for example, my family name "Benington" has been spelled in my family as I've typed it, for genearations.

The spelling of it as "Bennington" with a double N, a variation perhaps in different branches of our distantly connected family, is one that sounds more phonetically correct. (Personally, I think that its past clerks and record keepers rather than family members who often made that change!).

So... the problem is that many of the source records for my branch of the family use the double-N, although I know that's not how I/we spell have spelled our name. Thus, I'm not sure what to do then when people who are not directly connected to my branch of the family keep submitting records with that double-N, which then also shows up on Family Search as a duplicate and wrongly spelled name and record!

Dennis J Yancey

a website I often share with those focusing on surname spellings in past centuries:

https://www.genealogy.com/articles/research/62_donna.html