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Standardized location on document match not working.

CliftonVincent
CliftonVincent ✭
October 27, 2021 edited December 27, 2021 in General Questions

1) Perform a match of a record against a person record.

In the comparison you can add the date and location of an event, say a birth:

  • 25/10/1910
  • Johannesburg South Africa

Selecting the location gives an automatic list of locations - select a standardized date:

  • Johannesburg Transvaall South Africa municipality 1886-1994

Save the match


2) Going back to the tree or person view shows an "!" indicating no standardized location for the birth.

Edit the person record to select the standardized location again.


Please fix step 1.

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 27, 2021 edited October 27, 2021

    @CliftonVincent

    I just repeated what you have described without any problems.

    Sometimes these issues are cookie or browser related. If you have more than one browser installed, try another. Worked fine for me using Firefox. Deleting cookies rarely solves my problems, but that might also be worth a try.

    If either suggestion does not work, perhaps you might wish to describe the procedure you are / were undertaking in fuller detail, preferably with screenshots.

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  • RTorchia
    RTorchia ✭
    December 11, 2021

    I'm seeing the same problem, but it's intermittent, or may be dependent on the location being added. Here's an example: https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?pal=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMWMT-M4P&id=KCVL-3Q7&hinting=%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fdetails%2FKCVL-3Q7&icid=fs-hinting

    Add the residence, then attach the record. The residence as entered actually registers as standardized, but there's two identically named locations: a "town" and a "villiage" -- I don't know if that factors into the bug. It doesn't matter if you just save it immediately or if you press space and select either of the standardized choices, when you view the Details page, the residence is shown as non-standardized and you have to edit it to correct it.

    Here's the same situation where the same workflow can be followed and the bug does not occur: https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?pal=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMDHF-MBN&id=K8ZC-M8D&hinting=%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fdetails%2FK8ZC-M8D&icid=fs-hinting

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  • RTorchia
    RTorchia ✭
    December 11, 2021

    And apparently it's a known bug. There's a couple other posts about it already.

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 11, 2021

    After writing my comments in October I have since encountered this behaviour on a few occasions.

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