Canada - wrong geographic place names
Starting in 2012 "FamilySearch" users added countless people to your tree indicating event locations as "Upper Stewiacke, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia". This practice has continued as it is an option in your standard place names. THERE IS NO SUCH PLACE as any Google Maps search will show. Upper Stewiacke has ALWAYS been in Colchester.
I must also point out that Canada as such did not exist as a country place name before our Confederation on 1 July 1867. Again, your dropdown lists of standard place names show Canada included as a country identifier for many events prior to 1867.
As an example, present-day Ontario, Canada only became such in 1867. Until 1841, it was Upper Canada. From 1841 to 1867, it was Canada West.
Present-day Quebec, Canada only became such in 1867. Until 1841, it was Lower Canada (in French, Bas Canada). from 1842 to 1867, it was Canada East (in French Canada Est).
Surely there must be a way for you to do a mass correction in your database of these errors. When you're doing massive adds, instruct your volunteers to check Google Maps when adding place names. For Canada, the Canadian Encyclopedia at https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en is a great resource as well.
Your tree credibility could only increase if you would fix these very bad errors. Otherwise, it is an ongoing massive frustration to Canadians.
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You can make suggestions for corrections to FamilySearch's Places database using the Places tool: https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/.
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Any entries in Family Tree dated 2012 with username FamilySearch are from the initial build of Family Tree in the spring of 2012 in which FamilySearch imported all family information contributed by past researchers ever since the establishment of FamilySearch as the Genealogical Society of Utah in 1894.
On of the long standing debates and fluctuating "standards" in genealogical pursuits has been how to record place names. There have been two persistent camps over the past 130 years as reflected in all those records and who continue the debate today. This debate is over whether to record place names as they were at the time of the event or as they are today. Both sides have their strongly held opinions. One side would only use Upper Canada because that is what it was and the other would only use Canada because that is what it is. And there is no overarching, universally accepted, grand master of genealogy that everyone bows down to and accepts any proclamation from as law. So the debate is sure to continue.
Regarding mass automatic updates to the Family Tree database to correct errors in place names, the few times FamilySearch has tried this, to the horror of many of us users, the results have been less then optimal.
Also, other than the initial construction of Family Tree by the combining of those 130 years worth of old databases, FamilySearch does not do any massive adds to Family Tree. It is just us users adding people one by one or, which is another long standing debate, through GEDCOM files of various sizes. There are no volunteers. Just you and me. We are the ones to take personal responsibly to enter new information the best we can and to clean up the work of past researchers who could never have imagined the tools we have today.
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