Name is misspelled on finding aid but not on original Doc?
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I'm using a local county website to retrieve digital images of many documents (marriage, wills, etc.) pertaining to my family history. I'm not having an issue citing the actual images or where I found them. My question is this...on more than one occasion, the name is misspelled (sometimes mangled) in the index but then once I pull up the image of the original document, the name is spelled correctly. Basically, the index has transcription errors. What does this do to the citation? I'm not citing the index. I'm citing the original document with the correct spelling.