puerto rico research

ruthracevedo1

I am VERY frustrated with the misreadings and just plain poor transcription in Puerto Rico records. Now today I discovered -by accident- that the reason I can't find stuff is because you have put it under Puerto Rico Hidalgo Mexico/Texas. What is that about? ? Don't your adult transcribers know that Puerto Rico is an island in the middle of the ocean?

Now it is impossible to go back and correct the infinite number of records that are misfiled or just plain wrong.

I am very unhappy but at least I will now look at all the Hidalgo references.

Dennis J Yancey

chances are

"Puerto Rico Hidalgo Mexico/Texas."  was not even done by a human being

but some sort of systematic automated matching that was error prone.

I think there have been many lessons learned from the past indexing projects - like what you are seeing.

I feel your frustration . . .

Hopefully "lessons learned from the past" really were LEARNED and we dont keep doing things like this that create havoc.

Lourdes Vazquez

Same thing here: First time i am encountering the issue. Puerto Rico, the island indexed as Puerto Rico Hidalgo Mexico/Texas.

Dennis J Yancey

can you point us at one specific record so we can look at it?

ruthracevedo1

It is not ONE record- it is a whole boat load of records. unfortunately

ruthracevedo1

if one by chance clicks on Hidalgo Texas the pr records come up-0 but WHY would someone do that except by accident which is how I found out.

Dennis J Yancey

yes we totally realize its a boatload of records

but we need ONE specific link you can share with us so we can see what you are talking about.

we need something concrete we can see so we are wondering what specific item you can point us at.

ruthracevedo1

here you are----

1.Francisco Garcia Marrero- b 14 May 1828 Corozal PR

2.Sara Maria de la Concepcion Cordova de Garcia Tome- b 31 MAy 161143 Cuba, naturalized 1972

3.Felipe Lebron Ortiz- b Nov, d 10 JAn 1917 PR Hidalgo Texas #173, says married rosa MArtina- whoever that is. he m Susana Ortiz Ramos

4.Ortiz 1919 30 Jul PR Hidalgo Texas

5.Otiz Rosado- 1920 census San Lorenzo/Barranquitas PR Hidalgo Texas

enjoy !

Dennis J Yancey

Thanks

Thats a great start

but what I was hoping for was a LINK to the exact resource

(something that I can click on that takes me to the exact thing/resource you are seeing) so I can SEE what YOU SEE.

for example:

This (below) is a link to a John Gonzalez and links to his record in the following collection

Puerto Rico, Civil Registration, 1805-2001

the link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVJH-DW7S

(you can click the above hyperlink)

(you can copy and paste the link from your browser into the message and share with me

and then I can click on it and I can see what you are seeing)

ruthracevedo1

type in the items that I sent and see what you find- they are the listings I found as I found them.

Obviously at Family Search.org