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Why don't these event locations match?

Natalie Trott_1
Natalie Trott_1 ✭
January 11, 2022 edited January 11, 2022 in Search

In this record: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:CH2R-K3Z I notice the locations don't match.

Event Place Norfolk, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

Event Place (Original)Norfolk, 3, Norfolk (Independent City)

The correct place is Norfolk, Norfolk, Virginia.

This is the third or fourth one I've seen in the last week. Another one was a place in Fayette, Kentucky showing up with an event place of Fayette, Pennsylvania.

Is this a database error?

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 11, 2022 Answer ✓

    @N Tychonievich another for the "corrected" place name file, please.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 11, 2022 Answer ✓

    It's an auto-standardization error.

    FS really, really needs to just give up and revert ALL of the automatic standardizations that it has applied in the past year or so. Every. Single. One.

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  • Natalie Trott_1
    Natalie Trott_1 ✭
    January 11, 2022

    Oh, the BOT did it!🤐

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 11, 2022

    Yes, the bot went a bit crazy. For example: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/111798/another-instance-of-the-place-name-corrector-run-amok#latest

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  • N Tychonievich
    N Tychonievich mod
    January 11, 2022

    @Natalie Trott_1 Thank you for your beautifully complete report of the problem! A URL so I can get to it quickly and a clear description of what is inaccurate. A+ for you!

    I will get it to engineering for correction. Won't happen fast, as they unfortunately have a lot of these they are gradually working through.

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