Loving County, Texas - Al Capone - Waxey Gorden Hint ??

bekasu

Loving County has the smallest populate for any county in Texas. I've been helping out building family genealogy there.

Why would I get a hint for a record with Waxey Gorden and Al Capone in Loving County, Texas? They died in Alacatraz-- definitely not in Texas. Neither seems to have any Texas link.

As you can see, I've restricted my request to anything that occurred in Loving, Texas, United States (note the blue check mark).

Not complaining, just seems odd that this turned up for such a low populated area in Texas.

Here is the record info:

The 'open all' provides same information you see here (name and sex).

Just made me wonder how / what the computer code was looking for that linked this location with Al Capone and Waxey Gorden (aka Irving Wexler).

Perhaps because a paper in Loving County reported on their death even though it didn't occur there? That's the best I could come up with. Although the citation doesn't mention what paper this came from-- event place is South Carolina ... just odd.

Alan E. Brown

This record has nothing to do with Loving County, Texas. It looks like you did a search for Loving County, but there are results for other places. You said "As you can see, I've restricted my request to anything that occurred in Loving, Texas, United States (note the blue check mark)." It sounds like you're expecting such a search to give you only results from Loving, Texas, but checking the box by a (Any) place doesn't guarantee that you'll only get results from that place.

This particular record is for the Charleston Evening Post in Charleston, South Carolina. See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q57T-Y4RV

Áine Ní Donnghaile

You need to also isolate your search to Texas by using the Country/State boxes at the bottom of the search column.

bekasu

So the clicking of the box next to location does not limit it to that location? I've certainly misunderstood the use of restrictive search. Looks like I need to review the tutorials.

Thanks for taking time to help me understand.

Alan E. Brown

@bekasu In my experience, checking the box by the place for specific events (Birth, Death, etc.) does indeed limit the search results to match that location for the specified event(s). But the "Any" option seems more relaxed and does not absolutely limit the results. I can't find any documentation to substantiate that detail; I'm just sharing my experience.

bekasu

Update:

I tried 2 things:

1. Added United States & Texas down at the bottom and it reduced the found set by about 1,000 (from 11k to 10k or so)
2. Added Loving, Texas to each of the other types of records (Birth, Death, Marriage, Residence, and Any Place etc.) If you only add it to one of the types of records, it restricts for that type of record. I had various reductions for each of the types of records. If you add it for all the records, I had nothing found. No doubt because no one had been born, died, married, resided and had any other records that ONLY were in Loving county. Too restrictive.

I agree with Alan Brown. The specific record type seems restrictive in a manner that you expect. 'Any place' is a bit more perplexing on how it checks the records found.

I did enjoy the side trip to Alcatraz on this journey. Something that was unexpected but certainly an event in history that was big news at the time it happened.