Dade County, Florida?

Jeff246

In searching for deeds in Dade County, Florida, I have found that I almost always also get deeds for Hillsborough County, Florida. Could you look into this and possibly correct the issue?

One of the URLs is: https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text/results?count=20&q.text=moody&c.recordPlace1=on&f.recordPlace0=10&c.recordPlace2=on&f.recordPlace1=10%2CFlorida&c.recordPlace3=on&f.recordPlace2=10%2CFlorida%2CDade

Thank you!

Mark McKenzie_1

Looks like quite a few the Hillsborough County images in your example are also tagged to Orange County as well

https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text/results?count=20&q.text=moody&c.recordPlace1=on&f.recordPlace0=10&c.recordPlace2=on&f.recordPlace1=10%2CFlorida&c.recordPlace3=on&f.recordPlace2=10%2CFlorida%2COrange

Jeff246

I hadn't noticed that, but thank you for pointing it out. It seems as though this is a fairly common occurrence as a friend and I were talking about this wonderful resource tonight and she said that she had the same problem with records in a county in Pennsylvania. Maybe there is a "blanket fix"?

Mark McKenzie_1

Things like this are why FamilySearch put this out there for us to use and provide feedback. Going forward, Full Text Search will need some accurate place and date filters to help with the sheer volume of image results. Only expected to increase if FamilySearch decides [I hope] to expand the types of records/locales beyond this current offering. As for now, I often use a place name in the keywords search box to help with these type of filter oddities. As you say, its a great resource.

RobertWessel

@Mark McKenzie_1

The machine reads every word in the text without consideration for the context. For example, if you search for the surname "May" you will also see documents dated in the month of May. At this point, the computer cannot differentiate based on context. For now, users will need to use filters to narrow the search and might have to wade through unrelated images. Regardless, it is a vast improvement over viewing a film one frame at a time. The computer reads the words that make up the text but does not make decisions about the words it is reading. Additionally, collections are not always limited to a single location or decade. Images from more than one county or decade may appear in a seemingly unrelated collection or microfilm roll from which the image were digitized. The best I can say at this point is that we are hopeful that the experiment will prove to be a huge improvement.