Correction of Family Location Information in 1930 Census
The current information indicates that my family is from Horsens, Kær, Ålborg, but I know that my family actually lived in Horsens Købstad, Nim, Skanderborg. This inaccuracy in my family’s place of origin has confused our genealogy. I would like to suggest a correction of this location to reflect our true place of residence, as revealed in a 1930 census, and make our genealogy more accurate.
Answers
-
I'm afraid I can't figure out what it is you're suggesting or requesting. The Family Tree on FamilySearch is open-edit, as you doubtless are fully aware, given that you're credited with changes in it going back to at least 2015. Thus, I'm sure you know that if the place entered for an event or other conclusion is incorrect, then you can simply correct it.
In poking around at Ove Riis Nielsen (LK3W-8LH) and family members, I saw nothing like "Horsens, Kær, Ålborg", so I don't know what you're referring to with "The current information indicates" -- what current information, where?
Perhaps you're referring to the index of the 1930 Denmark census, and the weird mess left behind by the autostandardization bot (such as at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QLRZ-JMN4)?
Or oh, wait, there's a perfect storm of, um, glitches going on here, because the new edit-anything index correction tool claims that that index doesn't exist (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLH-K4HD-D?view=index&action=view).
We really need a Community group dedicated to the new index editor, because it keeps coming up with new and better ways to go bonkers.
1 -
Isn't that list of Event Place all the corrections that people have made to it? Why are there so many?
The real question to start with, is where does the census say they lived? Going back one page it just states Horsens. And that is what was originally indexed as seen by "Event Place (Original) Horsens" So the original index was correct. Only then did the auto-standardization routine tack on extra information. I don't think you can tell from the current index what that was. And now between 1 and 15 users have "corrected" the information in a variety of ways. Unless the auto-standardization routine has been "fixed" to include all possible place names if the indexed place name is insufficient to find the real place.
Unfortunately, this particular census film never completely states what this census is for. Even going to the very start of the roll, it never says anything more then Horsens Købstad. I don't know enough Danish geography to know if there is one and only one Horsens Købstad in all of Denmark. However, going to the Danish archives copy of the census, this particular record does come from Skanderborg which is where the only city by the name of Horsens is in the census:
Is it possible to get just the one correct edit for this place to the top of the Edit History list? Is there any way to get rid of all the incorrect edits?
2