Doubt in Date tracking update of person records

Dear all,
I have a doubt on the approach to be followed for a particular scenario. The following is the explanation:
Let us say we have a person record as follows:
Employee_No      Effective start Date         Marital status
100                    01-Jan-2000                  Single
Let us say HR user date tracked to 01-Jan-2010 and updated to Married
So we have the following :
Employee_No      Effective start Date    Effective end date      Marital status
100                    01-Jan-2000                31-Dec-2009            Single
100                    01-Jan-2010                31-Dec-4712            Married
Later HR found that the date of updation was not correct it should be 01-Jan-2011, which was wrongly entered as 01-Jan-2010.
Now should the HR
1) Go to the earliest record and delete the next change and then re enter with correct date? or
2) Go to 01-Jan-2010 , Correct the record to Single, go to 01-Jan-2011 update to Married.
Because Oracle allows both. In the second case, per_all_people_f will have 2 records with the same set of data but with different start and end dates.
Can any body say which is correct approach and why?
Thanks
Raj

Hi Raj,
In terms of business both the actions will fine as in reports it will show the same result.
From technical (data level) It is your decision on the way you want to go ahead.
In case of a error it is better practice to purge the next changes and update the record with correct details.
Thanks,
Sanjay

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