Review Names includes place names
Under the Get Involved Review Names, some of the names that are suggested are the names or abbreviations for places. Should those be treated as a Transcription Error (Not A Name) or should they be Matched/Edited?
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I do Transcription Error (Not a Name) for those because the objective of the computer indexing program is to identify family names.
(note: I am not the program manager or representative, so this is not the "official" answer.)
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Thank you for your questions. Yes, you are correct, any names like business or place names (names that are not people's names) should be identified as a Transcription Error using the Not-a-Name option.
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What if the names for a place or anything for that matter than it not a person but has a person's name? An example would be Jefferson county. If Jefferson is a person's name but the usage is not does it confuse the computer if we mark it as not a name?
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My understanding of this task is that it deals only with personal names.
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