A while back I tried to submit a correction to a name in a California Marriage Index to FamilySearch.org. I am SURE there was a convenient “submit correction” button or I probably wouldn’t have bothered. Anyway, a couple of weeks or so later I received a reply that basically said thanks, but we can’t make corrections right now. The email provided this link that discusses corrections in FamilySearch records: https://help.familysearch.org/publishing/793/101553_f.SAL_Public.html At the same time I got an email in my mailbox, but addressed to someone else! Hmmmm It concerned an error in the 1930 census. In that email, they said: "At this time FamilySearch cannot make or accept corrections to transcriptions, but a feature to allow such changes is in the planning stages”. They provided the the same link as shown above. So, I guess the plan is to somewhere down the line attempt corrections. I do know that, when I search now at FamilySearch.org, many of the census images there link to Ancestry.com. So as Randi said, at some point the 1940 census probably will go the way of previous records and all of them will require a subscription to some site or other in order to actually view the images. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some images that link to Fold3.com, at least some of which require a subscription to view. Marilyn ========================================================================= -----Original Message----- From: gftl Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:48 AM To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online Jan, I don't know how to address corrections at FamilySearch. Maybe someone else can provide the information?? Randi On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:38:26 -0400, Jan Flowers wrote: > Looking at my family in the 1940 census for Madison county, Indiana > there > are some mis-spelling of names and incorret dates and ages. > > How can these be corrected? > > Jan Flowers >
I think that I read some time earlier that the 1940 was more or less "free" until completely indexed, or indexed. Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:57 AM, M Nickless <unicorn1950@comcast.net> wrote: > > > A while back I tried to submit a correction to a name in a California > Marriage Index to FamilySearch.org. I am SURE there was a convenient > “submit correction” button or I probably wouldn’t have bothered. > Anyway, > a couple of weeks or so later I received a reply that basically said > thanks, but we can’t make corrections right now. The email provided > this link that discusses corrections in FamilySearch records: > https://help.familysearch.org/publishing/793/101553_f.SAL_Public.html > > At the same time I got an email in my mailbox, but addressed to someone > else! Hmmmm It concerned an error in the 1930 census. In > that > email, they said: "At this time FamilySearch cannot make or accept > corrections to transcriptions, but a feature to allow such changes is in > the > planning stages”. They provided the the same link as shown above. > So, I guess the plan is to somewhere down the line attempt corrections. > > I do know that, when I search now at FamilySearch.org, many of the census > images there link to Ancestry.com. So as Randi said, at some point the > 1940 census probably will go the way of previous records and all of them > will require a subscription to some site or other in order to actually view > the images. If I'm not mistaken, there are also some images that link > to Fold3.com, at least some of which require a subscription to view. > > > Marilyn > > > > ========================================================================= > -----Original Message----- > From: gftl > Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:48 AM > To: in-south-central@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL] 1940 Indiana Census Now Online > > Jan, > > I don't know how to address corrections at FamilySearch. Maybe someone > else can provide the information?? > > Randi > > On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:38:26 -0400, Jan Flowers wrote: > > Looking at my family in the 1940 census for Madison county, Indiana > > there > > are some mis-spelling of names and incorret dates and ages. > > > > How can these be corrected? > > > > Jan Flowers > > > > > The IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL Rootsweb list is for genealogists and historians who > have an interest in the south central district of Indiana, as defined by > the Indiana Genealogial Society, including the counties of: Bartholomew, > Brown, Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harris, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Orange, > Scott and Washington. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IN-SOUTH-CENTRAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message