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Place names help - non standard

Holleen Hope Pinkley
Holleen Hope Pinkley ✭✭
March 2, 2022 edited August 15, 2023 in Family Tree

?? Should one just put the location of the cemetery & NOT the name of the cemetery?? Having the name of the cemetery is so useful !! This is what I i encountered

John Alfred Graham - Male 1876-1923 - 9WFW-5XL

FamilySearch does not recognize this user-entered place:

Add the standard place that is most similar to what the user entered. What you add will not overwrite or delete the user-entered place. Skip to the next person if you are unsure.

User-Entered Place:

Burial 2 May 1923

Calvary Cemetery, New York City, New York, United States

Non standardized place:

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    March 2, 2022 edited March 2, 2022 Answer ✓

    I usually put the address of the cemetery (city, county, state, country) in the location field, with the name of the cemetery and plot number, when I know it, in the Reason box. An example of one of mine, also from Calvary:

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  • Holleen Hope Pinkley
    Holleen Hope Pinkley ✭✭
    March 3, 2022

    thanks

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  • BJC1234
    BJC1234 ✭
    August 10, 2023

    Place of Burial says to me: Cemetery ....

    Reason this Information is Correct says to me: "because it said so on the obituary." or what ever.

    So this FamilySearch set up just leads to people putting information in odd spots, then in the future we will have to have a group edit project to correct all this. Just like we have now for Standardizing place names.

    Perhaps FamilySearch should say City/Town where buried as I think the goal of all this is to plot it on a map in the future, they may not want the specific 3'x6' plot location

    Then they could have a field called "further details"

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