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Wrong town is the "standardized" one

osoggy
osoggy ✭
September 11, 2021 in General Questions

I've been working on some records in Iowa that are being attached in family trees. Every time I try to use "Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa" which is the county seat of Floyd County, Iowa -- the system will standardize it to be "Freeman, Floyd County, Iowa". Freeman is a ghost town; it existed only in the 1850s. It was absorbed into Charles City in the 1860s.

How do I let people know this error is happening?

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 11, 2021

    Is it an error? That depends on the dates of the records. If the records have the location Freeman in the 1850's then that standard is correct.

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  • osoggy
    osoggy ✭
    September 11, 2021

    It’s happening for all records after 1870

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  • Amy Archibald
    Amy Archibald mod
    September 11, 2021

    Visit the FamilySearch Places group here in the FamilySearch Community with this information and someone will get it fixed.

    https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/68-familysearch-places

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  • osoggy
    osoggy ✭
    September 12, 2021

    thank you. Information posted

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