How to report film indexed incorrectly?
I noticed that one film that was indexed has the parents name listed as middle name, and any age that has fractions is listed as 0 years old. I corrected my ancestors name that was wrong. But I can't see a way to add parents name, or fix age. Can I report the entire film?
"Deutschland, Preußen, Westpreußen, Katholische und Lutherisch Kirchenbücher, 1537-1981", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZMK-G1SV : 24 July 2021), Stanislaus Thoma Zelashowski, 1806.
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@RandyZie, regarding your report of indexing errors in one page of the collection "Deutschland, Preußen, Westpreußen, Katholische und Lutherisch Kirchenbücher, 1537-1981", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZMK-G1SV : 24 July 2021), Stanislaus Thoma Zelashowski, 1806.
You have successfully edited the name of the principal person in the record, Stanislaus Zelaskowski. The name field can be edited by the users as they discover their ancestors' names. The names of the parents were not included in the original indexing template for this collection, and will not be added. You can add explanatory comments when you attach the record as a source to a Family Tree profile.
The age field was indexed incorrectly as '0' for any ages that were recorded as fractional numbers. This error does not seem to be widespread through the collection- it does not occur in the several pages preceding and succeeding the page you've reported.
We are forwarding your error report about the ages indexed incorrectly to a specialty department for review and resolution. The queue for correcting these issues is quite long, and it could take at least a year to see the results.
We thank you for reporting these issues as you find them in your research. We hope you will continue to enjoy using FamilySearch and have much success in discovering you family history.
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Those differences are within normal limits and are handled gracefully in Search, Find, and the Family Tree hints system. I don't report them. I don't even make those corrections on index records when the editing tool is available.
Indexing errors that are systematic and extremely incorrect, such as placing Indiana records in India or Pennsylvania records in Indiana, can be reported in FS Community in Q and A: Search. (Don't ask me why there. That's where I am told to put them.)
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I think putting age of 0 instead of 4 and not listing parents names, instead making it look as if the child has a middle name, shouldn't be 'normal limits'. Without access to family history center on some of these films, and with peoples laziness, you're going to have thousands of names and ages wrong. Meaning brickwalls...
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@RandyZie , I did say where to post a report about indexing problems. If you go there you will see some of my reports.
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Hello, I'm finding quite a few records that are indexed with the incorrect gender and I don't always see an option to edit. This makes it difficult to match to other records as they are indexed and can be confusing. Also, I found an error that I wanted to verify and correct for Ramon Gamez ID #G7CV GG4 (Gamez is frequently indexed as Gomez - and the 2 names are not related as Gamez is Basque). The image linked to the indexed record is wrong - Ramon's death certificate is on the next page. That is not intuitive and maybe some researchers would miss that. How can those errors be corrected? Thank you!
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Correction - it is Francisco Gamez Cortave's death record that is on the next page. Ramon is his father.
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I found a Census Record that I found rather strange.
I know that the United States did not have a Scotts Air Force Base in 1820. But there it is. The Image was mis labeled.
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@Susan Hurst_1, I suspect that what you've found is yet another auto-standardization error, but without knowing even what state that image comes from, I can't explore any further.
I suspect that what was indexed was "Scott Town" or thereabouts, since that's what's written on the page. The computer matched that with the first thing that came up in the database, which was the air force base.
(In the past year or so, in an effort to transition searches to a more efficient entity-based model, FamilySearch ran an automated process that associated standardized locations with the text entries in place fields. Unfortunately, the process was missing an essential sanity check or validation step, and therefore has resulted in ridiculously incorrect places associated with millions of indexed records.)
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@Susan Hurst_1, I wonder if you could provide a link to your discovery of Scotts Air Force Base in the 1820 U.S. Census.
I would like to take a closer look and see if this is sometime that should be sent along to the engineers as an auto-standardization error.
Thank you.
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