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Joe Coutts
Joe Coutts ✭
November 25, 2022 edited November 24, 2023 in Search

Canada, Registers of Chinese Immigration to Canada, 1885-1949

Why are so many of the results for these thousands of individuals listings showing port of arrival as Victoria Australia when they should display Victoria, BC Canada?

As in this example.

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  • errors in place location
  • Place name issue
  • place name error
  • Immigration records
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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 25, 2022

    Yet More Auto-standardization.

    (They were indexed as just "Victoria". The collection's location made it obvious which Victoria was meant, but unfortunately, FS ran the autostandardization bot without any reference to minor details like "collection title that identifies the correct continent".)

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  • Joe Coutts
    Joe Coutts ✭
    November 25, 2022

    "Minor Details"

    I suppose only 13000km, just about next to each other!

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  • Maile L
    Maile L ✭✭✭✭✭
    December 7, 2022

    @Joe Coutts Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I will pass this on for correction

    Maile 🙂

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  • Maile L
    Maile L ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 22, 2023 edited November 22, 2023

    https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:665Q-52QP currently has the event place as Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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  • Paul W
    Paul W ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 23, 2023 edited November 23, 2023

    @Maile L

    Thank you for your updates on this and several other corrections to the Event Place detail - mainly necessary due to an incorrect location appearing following the auto-standardization exercise. Perhaps you closed some of the other threads (on this general issue) a little too quickly, thus preventing other expressions of thanks for your part in getting at least some of the huge amount of reports resolved!

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