String in citation incorrect
"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (ark:/61903/1:1:M4NT-8J9 : Wed Apr 05 02:24:31 UTC 2023), Entry for Jesse Pierson and Mary Pierson, 1860.
It appears that some citation strings are not being correctly completed.
The "https://familysearch.org/" belongs inside the parentheses in front of "ark."
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@VikkiCrosley Thank you for pointing out that the URL in the citation on a record details page is incomplete. I have passed it on to the group that maintains the record collections. Unfortunately, we aren't able to predict how long it might take for a correction to be in place.
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This is probably not an Indexing issue but a post-processing issue in which the URL has been corrupted accidentally.
@N Tychonievich is this in your territory or can you get it to the proper department? Thanks. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4NT-8J9
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I wasn't sure where to send it. However, I think it's more than just an accidental corruption, as I have found the same problem in numerous citations. I suspect it may be one person's error, if that is who is completing the citations. The urls on the sources are correct. It just isn't being put in the citation.
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I suspect it is more likely a computer algorithm gone awry. We've seen several incidences of that in other records, records that WERE correct, but the algorithm broke or corrupted the information.
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OK, thanks. As I find them, is there somewhere to forward them for correction? I usually just make the correction when I add the source to a profile, but there was an instance where there were quite a few for one person's profile, and it was a pain to have to make all the corrections. I was not able to figure how to make the correction on the Family Search profile...
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I'd suggest waiting until we hear from the mod I tagged in my first comment. That way we may get better info about where to refer the specific problem.
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OK, will do. Thanks!
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I have seen this error in a lot of census records, particularly in the 1850 census records for Georgia. The people that it uses for the citation a lot of times do not make sense because they are not the head of the household. Sometimes they are children! Also the family list is a lot of times out of order from how it appears on the actual document. It makes it very hard to read when you are trying to determine who are the parents and who are the children. I do a lot of work on WikiTree, too and this error is making things a lot more difficult. I am having to switch to Ancestry just to get census records that actually make sense!
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I am seeing this in several 1950 census records - both people in this census record have incomplete url in the citation, but other census that are shown linked on that page have correct url in their citations.
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It does seem to be more prevalent in census records, but I have also found it in marriage records. I am glad to say that I haven't been seeing the problem except once in the last week or so, and I have been adding a lot of sources to Wikitree profiles during that week. I would agree that the 1950 records seem to be one of the most prevalent. I have even found that there is no citation at all in some of them, even though there is a url present. Seems like I started seeing this when the new profile template started appearing. I don't recall seeing the url without a citation on the old template.
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I am so grateful someone else has noticed and posted about this issue. Thank you. My experience is documented at https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/142046/incomplete-source-links-in-multiple-places#latest
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