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Ability to correct indexing and/or data entry errors

LegacyUser
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July 21, 2020 edited February 18, 2021 in Suggest an Idea
Merlin R Kitchen said: I greatly appreciate the ability, on some records, to correct indexing errors, and was pleasantly surprized to find out that if an indexing error is corrected on a source which has already been attached to someone, that the attached source is corrected, as I have corrected a census indexing error that was already attached to some members of the family (but not all) and I went to look at the source on the persons that already had the census attached, and the wording was changed with the correction as if the correction had happened before the source was attached.
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Now for a complaint. some census, such as the 1930 census does not allow correction to the indexing, but rather lets you correct the year of the census (never will happen) and the locality of the census (never will happen).
Please go back and alter the software to allow corrections to the indexing errors on all the census records at least for the name and age.
My example: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1...
The family surname if Truax and the handwriting makes it look like and it was indexed as Fruax
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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    July 21, 2020
    Tom Huber said: The means to correct any indexed fields is relatively new and still in the process of being fully developed. At one time, we were told that the ability to make the changes were applied to individual indexes, so some of them will not have that ability. This is especially true of indexes from other sites, such as Find a Grave, and so on. Only indexes produced by volunteers at FamilySearch are available for correcting and then only if the ability has been "switched on" for that index.
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  • LegacyUser
    LegacyUser ✭✭✭✭
    July 21, 2020
    Merlin R Kitchen said: Thanks Tom
    I have used this capability may times and appreciate it very much.
    But my point is that some census collections have the ability switched on, but only for entries that do not make sense, like the 1930 census I gave as my example, where you could change the year of the census (nonsense) and the place of the census (also nonsense.)
    I, and I assume most others search a census using the name as the primary search term
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  • Robert W Coppernoll
    Robert W Coppernoll ✭
    April 25, 2022

    I repaired the error.

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  • Lori Dunham Williams
    Lori Dunham Williams ✭
    July 11, 2022 edited July 11, 2022
    The "Death Place" section of the records indexed for the Italy, Teramo, Teramo, Civil Registration (Tribunale), 1866-1940 are incorrect. See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89SK-NZTC?i=83&cc=1947829&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AQYQK-H73Z
    These show as the place of death: San Egidio, Quetta, Campodenno, Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italia
    The "Death Place" for these indexed records SHOULD be:
    Sant'Egidio alla Vibrata, Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy

    As per the cover page, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9SK-NZXP?i=81&cc=1947829 (and the individual records)


    Thank you,

    Lori Williams

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