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Wrong locations linked in many German church records

HarmKopke
HarmKopke ✭
December 30, 2021 edited December 31, 2021 in Search

Hi FamilySearch-Team!

I noticed a problem with a whole batch of German church records which have been linked to the wrong location.

One example:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP81-57ZW

The record states two Baptism Places:

1) "Baptism Place (Original)": Wolfsburg, Fallersleben u. Meinerdingen, Fallersleben u. Meinerdingen, Hannover, Deutschland

This is CORRECT; it matches the "Church Name: Evangelische Kirche Neindorf (Kr. Gifhorn)" given further down.

2) "Baptism Place: Walmsburg, Bleckede, Hannover, Preußen, Deutschland"

This is WRONG. 

I've got no idea how the two places got mixed up. Maybe "Wolfsburg" was misread as "Walmsburg", as all except two letters are identical. However, the two places are more than 100 km apart and I see no connection what so ever except similar names.

I found this incorrect connection between "Wolfsburg" and "Walmsburg" in many record entires of that batch:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&q.filmNumber=001727585

The problem is that Family Search automatically adds Walmsburg as the place of baptism automatically when you link one of these documents to a person.

Maybe FamilySearch can correct this error for the whole batch instead of users correcting it for each record individually.

I found no way to do that. Sorry, I'm quite new to FamilySearch and not familiar with the details of how to handle documents.

Greetings from Germany

Harm

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  • N Tychonievich
    N Tychonievich mod
    January 16, 2022 Answer ✓

    @HarmKopke Thank you for pointing out the error. We will pass it on to the engineers for correction. Unfortunately, we can't predict how long it will take for them to get it fixed.

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  • M Haws
    M Haws ✭✭
    February 10, 2022

    We would also invite you to send a message directly to [email protected] Said message will be reviewed by a dedicated team who manages our standardized place database. We thank you in advance.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 11, 2022 edited February 11, 2022

    @M Haws, this is a report of an auto-standardization error. The automated process associated the wrong entity with the indexed text. The places database did not cause this incorrect choice, and Place Feedback cannot do anything to fix it.

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  • PiperTWilson
    PiperTWilson ✭✭✭
    February 11, 2022

    Mod Note: One post was edited to bring it in line with the Community Code of Conduct. Please be kind.

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  • N Tychonievich
    N Tychonievich mod
    February 12, 2022

    @HarmKopke Thank you for reporting the inaccurate place standardization in the Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials recod collection. We have reported it to engineering. We are unable to predict how long it will take for the correction to be in place.

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  • microwheels
    microwheels ✭
    February 28, 2022

    @Julia Szent-Györgyi, you are correct that the report is about the result of an automated standardization process; however, if the necessary data is not in the place system used for standardization, the automation can't get it right. That's why @M Haws invited the original poster to reach out to [email protected] A quick search in the places research tool (see https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?searchTypeaheadInputText=Wolfsburg,%20Germany&text=Wolfsburg%2C%20Germany) doesn't show any Wolfsburgs that look like the original event place noted in the record (meaning they don't match the full string very well). Granted, I don't know the first thing about German research so I'm not much help there.

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