Maryland 1870 census have wrong place data
The source linker lets us import residence data when attaching a source. For the 1870 US census, the data for the last year or few has incorrectly been listed as something like “Maryland Indiana” (with more place names included). Before that it was just Maryland, United States. Unlike other census years, it never included the specific place data before. So I guess something was done to try and improve the place data a few years ago, but it messed it up for Maryland.
Here is a screenshot. I know it is the standardized data so I guess the way the standardizing system would have to be adjusted.
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@Michael W. McCormick Thank you for reporting the inaccurate place in the 1870 Census for Baltimore, MD. We have reported it to the group that is working to correct this sort of error. Unfortunately, they have a large backlog of issues they are working on, so we cannot predict how long it will take for a correction to be in place.
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Oh, trust me, the auto-standardization messed up badly for the entire planet, not just Maryland.
(You can recognize the automated process's depredations by the existence of two event place fields. The one labeled with a parenthetical "original" is the text that was actually indexed. The other one is where the computer decided to stick the map pin.)
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@N Tychonievich please and thanks.
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Mod note- This error report was moved to the Search category.
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