{"id":9059,"date":"2019-08-02T01:58:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T01:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2019-08-02T01:58:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T01:58:23","slug":"familysearch-allows-editing-of-incorrect-transcriptions-and-errors-in-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=9059","title":{"rendered":"FamilySearch Allows Editing of Incorrect Transcriptions and &#8220;Errors&#8221; in the Record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"874\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-name-editing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-name-editing.jpg 874w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-name-editing-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/familysearch-name-editing-768x331.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>FamilySearch <\/em>is allowing the editing of some index entries in their online indexes to record images. It&#8217;s a great way to correct indexing errors that can easily be made. That&#8217;s a good thing. It makes it easier for users to find their person in the database index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a blog post on the <em>FamilySearch<\/em> s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/blog\/en\/edit-names-indexed-records\/\">ite index editing can be done when the original is wrong<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nope. Correcting an index entry to reflect what is written in the actual record is one thing. &#8220;Fixing&#8221; the original record is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just nope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FamilySearch is allowing the editing of some index entries in their online indexes to record images. It&#8217;s a great way to correct indexing errors that can easily be made. That&#8217;s a good thing. It makes it easier for users to find their person in the database index. According to a blog post on the FamilySearch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}