Fix Hungarian indexed records or at least future indexing of Hungarian records
I have found that the records that have been indexed for the area in and around Balmazújváros, Hajdú-Bihar, Hungary have a major problem. An alarming number of these have been indexed with the WRONG GENDER! I can usually catch them, but I worry about those who are not familiar enough with the names to know which is which gender! This has the capability of wasting LOTS of time in temple work which would eventually have to be done over! I don't know if there is a way to correct what's already been indexed, but hopefully someone in charge can make sure this doesn't happen in future indexing for Hungary. I've done a lot of work in Swiss and German records, and I have never run into such a pervasive problem before! Thanks.
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My theory is that they ran the translation algorithm once too often -- but it's really just a minor annoyance. I mean, I had to actually go check whether Search - Records even has a "Sex" field any more. I don't think I've ever used it.
It's a much, much bigger problem that a lot of the new indexing has avoided the autostandardization mess by stopping at the country for the event place, rendering the index nearly useless thereby. It's especially bad when dealing with surnames that are common throughout the country; it causes the hinting system to offer up totally and completely impossible things, just because the names happen to match.
Example of a search where the event place is just "Hungary" on all 100 results on the first page: https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.filmNumber=4836737&c.marriageLikePlace1=on&f.marriageLikePlace0=5. Or here's one where all 100 say (the utterly nonsensical) "Slovakia, Czechoslovakia": https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&q.filmNumber=004528984.
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