No, original documents stay exactly as they were written at the time. There is no changing history.
As you gather your family information with the supporting documentation found you should make many notes of exactly what and where it was found. In your own notes you can annotate what you think should have been written or perhaps just notes of other spellings also found or spellings later used.
I thought I saw somewhere where you can add additional info or submit changes...Perhaps I misunderstood??? I was thinking of perhaps adding a footnote or something like Johan Norvoll (Johanson) to the existing information. I don't know if that is possible and if not that is fine. I am so appreciative of the information that you have found, I can't begin to thank you enough.
Glenn, as Hopkins explained the original information stays as is. However in some cases it is possible to add further information to a transcription of the orginal information. For example in your case the orginal information is the ships manifest for the ship the Refondo. Ancestry.com has scanned this manifest and one can view the orginal image if you have an Ancestry.com subcription. Further someone at or affliated with Ancestry.com has transcribed the orginal information and made it available for searching. The transcription of the orginal information is what I posted in my previous two posts.
In the case of Ancesry.com there is a mechanism for adding Additional Information to the transcripton. Thus others who come upon the transcripton at a later date can become aware of addtional informaton on the individual.
You would have to go back and find out WHERE you saw that and what that applied to.
You were given a good number of different links in the previous discussion and they came from various sources -- you'd need to know about each of those.
Hi. It must have been a terrible voyage, so many died.
Original documents always stay as written. There are misspellings and errors in church records and censuses (no proof reading at that time), some were forgotten. The work with corrections on the cencuses has started, everyone can contact Digitalarkivet with new information. Any correction will be marked with a hammer to click on, then the new info will appear.
Yes Kaarto it must have been terrrible...I do remember an Uncle mentioning it, but I am not sure that he even knew how bad it really was. I am not by any means trying to even think about changing any history, but it would be great if there could be some notations attached for future generations....For example someone has submitted incorrect information to the LDS site about another branch of my family and I am not sure how or if that can be corrected either...Thanks again
Sorbergshagen
Posted - 11/11/2011 : 00:30:07
