{"id":1041,"date":"2009-02-21T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/correcting-entries-on-ancestry\/"},"modified":"2013-07-12T16:27:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T21:27:25","slug":"correcting-entries-on-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/correcting-entries-on-ancestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Correcting Entries on Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I posted <a title=\"Bingo! (and a few lessons learned)\" href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/bingo-and-a-few-lessons-learned\/\">Bingo! (and a few lessons learned)<\/a>.\u00a0 The long and the short is that I finally found my grandfather in the 1930 census.\u00a0 He was indexed as Jack Isbill, when in actuality it should have been Jack Cahill.<\/p>\n<p>I submitted corrections to his record and the others in the family.\u00a0 Today, I got emails from Ancestry saying that they had added the correction and it was now available in the searches.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 475px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px none;\" alt=\"2-21-2009 11-36-37 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/SaA_XQ7IbFI\/AAAAAAAADBI\/YJoc2PPrzuQ\/2-21-2009%2011-36-37%20AM%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"475\" height=\"413\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Email from Ancestry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/SZrPdvlgdsI\/AAAAAAAAC_I\/6FX19XWbmRs\/1930%20Census%20-%20Cahill%20Indexed%5B8%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"350\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original Indexed Record<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2-21-2009 11-45-20 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/SaA_XgrzWRI\/AAAAAAAADBM\/Zd3wf7ZuQo0\/2-21-2009%2011-45-20%20AM%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"358\" height=\"331\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corrected Indexed Record<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2-21-2009 11-37-18 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_udfzp1vLXt0\/SaA_X2Kvc1I\/AAAAAAAADBQ\/L9JlzNY5c50\/2-21-2009%2011-37-18%20AM%5B7%5D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"500\" height=\"156\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Search Results<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m impressed that the turnaround time was only a few days.\u00a0 I&#8217;m also impressed that this option is available so as to help others in their searches.\u00a0 I strongly encourage everyone to submit corrections anytime you find something indexed incorrectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, I posted Bingo! 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