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Accept standard place names Family Search has not seen before

Colin Beckwith
Colin Beckwith ✭
April 17, 2022 edited April 3 in Suggest an Idea

On the Home Page of Family Search you ask for help in finding or suggesting 10 standardised place names. As an ex-geography teacher, I love this section. I always check my UK suggestions with the help of the British Ordnance Survey maps on the "Streetmap" web-site. There are occasions when a place name is mis-spelled, for example "Donington-Wood, Shropshire. At the moment the system will not accept a revised spelling or other corrections if they don't appear in the suggestions above. In this case the correct spelling should have a double"nn", i.e. Donnington Wood, Shropshire, England but the system will not accept it and retains the single "n". If you really want help the system needs to be more flexible.

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  • genthusiast
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    April 18, 2022 edited April 18, 2022

    FamilySearch Places database does have this capability for users to contribute corrections/additions. When I view the place: Donington Wood (Parish 1808-TODAY) - the Alternate Names section does include 'Donnington Wood' as a variant name. There are also two timeframes for the place listing 'Chapelry' (instead of parish): https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?focusedId=10685582&searchTypeaheadInputText=Donnington%20Wood,%20Shropshire,%20England&text=Donnington%20Wood,%20Shropshire,%20England&pagenum=1&pagesize=20#:~:text=Research%20Links-,Alternate%20Names,-Name

    You may need to scroll down to view Alternate Names section of the page.

    If this is not sufficient - you can use the

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    to suggest edits to the FamilySearch places team that manages the database.

    I suspect you would like the Alternate Name to appear so that you may select it as the place directly. I am not sure why Alternate Names might not appear - perhaps someone else can comment on that - otherwise I suppose if you enter the Alternate Name and do not select the listed name - perhaps the system will link the Alternate Name appropriately (that would be wished - otherwise it would not be as friendly to have to browse each place to see if alternates are listed - in order to select the right listing)?

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  • dontiknowyou
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    April 18, 2022

    Can anyone tell me how one might join the Places gazetteer development team?

    I am constantly finding place names not in the gazetteer and wish I could just edit the gazetteer myself rather than submit an application through the "Improve This Place" process.

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