Pretoria, Mt Fletcher, Cape Province, South Africa
There are probably 1000's of South Africa records with Pretoria as the place name. Many of them have standardized to:
Pretoria, Mt Fletcher, Cape Province, South Africa
I'm pretty sure that 99.99% are not that standard, but Pretoria, Transvaal.
As an example:
Can that be fixed?
Thanks
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@starkeypd Thank you. Not sure if we can get it changed, but we'll report it and see what happens.
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@starkeypd We can report the problem, but need a little help from you. Can you help us understand where to look on the original document to see that it should be Transvaal? I'm seeing Pretoria, but not Tranvaal on the document. Can you help us know how to know which ones need corrected? Thanks!
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Pretoria is not on the document, so there could be a question- in theory. But Pretoria, Transvaal has the population of 2.4m people. If anyone in South Africa would think of Pretoria it would be Pretoria, Transvaal or Pretoria, Guateng. It is one of the 3 capital cities in the country.
Pretoria, Mt Fletcher... must be a very small place. I can't find any reference to Pretoria, Mt Fletcher other than on Familysearch.
If you have to choose because of ambiguity, then it seems better to choose the most likely one.
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At least the records are "filed" in the same country. Many others are not.
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I'm late to the party but I agree with OP. 'Pretoria, Mt Fletcher' is nonsensical and it should be changed en masse, if possible. 99,999% would be referring to Pretoria, one of the largest and most important cities. Nobody has heard of the other one. It might even have been a farm long ago.
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