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Pretoria, Mt Fletcher, Cape Province, South Africa

starkeypd
starkeypd ✭
March 21, 2022 edited March 21, 2022 in Search

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:


https://www.familysearch.org/search/edit-record?record=/ark:/61903/1:1:8WR5-W8W2&pid=/ark:/61903/1:1:8WR5-W8W2&label=EVENT_PLACE_ORIG


Can that be fixed?


Thanks

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  • N Tychonievich
    N Tychonievich mod
    March 22, 2022 Answer ✓

    @starkeypd Thank you. Not sure if we can get it changed, but we'll report it and see what happens.

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  • N Tychonievich
    N Tychonievich mod
    March 21, 2022

    @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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  • starkeypd
    starkeypd ✭
    March 21, 2022

    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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  • starkeypd
    starkeypd ✭
    March 22, 2022

    At least the records are "filed" in the same country. Many others are not.

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  • BonnyH
    BonnyH ✭✭
    September 13, 2022

    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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