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Error with North Carolina collection that is misidentified as Pennsylvania

Jeniann Nielsen
Jeniann Nielsen ✭✭
September 13, 2022 edited July 27, 2024 in Search

You have a collection called Pennsylvania, Obituary and Marriage Collection:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Pennsylvania,_Obituary_and_Marriage_Collection_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records

However if you look at the description, it's newspaper indexes from the Old Buncombe North Carolina Genealogical Society.

This collection should be named with North Carolina, not Pennsylvania.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 13, 2022 edited September 13, 2022

    I just looked at a few clippings at random and the ones I saw are from Pennsylvania newspapers.

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 13, 2022

    Yeah, as Áine says: Pennsylvania is correct. I browsed randomly through the marriages, and they were all announcements from Pennsylvania newspapers.

    As for why a North Carolina genealogy society compiled material from Pennsylvania, I got nuttin'.

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  • Jeniann Nielsen
    Jeniann Nielsen ✭✭
    September 13, 2022

    Yet the people mentioned in the articles were living in North Carolina. It is a rather strange collection. But I guess the title is correct. It won't let me delete, but this can be ignored.

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  • Áine Ní Donnghaile
    Áine Ní Donnghaile ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 13, 2022

    Maybe a special interest group within the society. I live in a state other than where I research. I'm semi-active in our local genealogical society. If there were like-minded souls, we might do something similar for an area of interest.

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