US, Rhode Island Nat Records part G. He was born on a ship !!!!!!
In Image 2 the birthplace is listed as "On board sailing ship Llanguihue from Valparaiso, Chile". That's what I put in the entry field. Is that correct? That's kind of cool, huh? Although his mother might not have thought so! 😉
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/854bcdc6-c03f-431a-99e3-da5d92ad620b
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Instruction (when they had decent instructions for almost any situation) used to be to enter "At Sea" when someone was born on a ship at sea. It would be interesting to see what an official answer would be these days.
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I think At Sea should still apply. The field help says: Do not index street names, addresses, hospitals, or localities smaller than a town or city. I think names of ships at sea would also apply to this.
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If specific locality of the sea can be listed, great
BUT I can't get the FSFT to accept Strait of Gibraltar as the specific place where the ship sank.
I already tried PlaceNames site to add the place. No allowance for seas despite having exact GPS address
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@W D Samuelsen contact me please, the Places tool's "suggest new" function is limited. To suggest something like a sea, you're better off contacting them by email (placefeedback@familysearch.org).
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