More inventions in Search results
This afternoon, I'm searching for an Irish death in civil death registrations. I have to cast a wide net because those records have been greatly affected by the application of the placename algorithm. IOW, I have to search all of Ireland because you never know which county will have been assigned to the record.
Now, I'm seeing a new strange invention. The Irish death registrations do not list a date of birth. The closest they come is age at last birthday.
The death record for Michael Hession #52 shows that he died on 19 Aug 1920, age 17. The FSsearch results show Birth September 1903.
The index shows Birth Year (Estimated) 1903 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FRLV-435
There is, of course, no Feedback button on Search results.
Sigh.
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In "fairness", I do see a Feedback button on the Results page. To illustrate the problem, it would be better to use the search criteria I have shown at https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=100&f.recordType=2&q.deathLikeDate.from=1920&q.deathLikeDate.to=1920&q.deathLikePlace=County%20Galway%2C%20Ireland&q.deathLikePlace.exact=on&q.givenName=Michael&q.isPrincipal=true&q.recordCountry=Ireland&q.surname=Hession&f.collectionId=1408347&f.collectionId=2659409&f.collectionId=2820100. That gives just two results, both of which illustrate the where-the-heck-did-that-come-from month of birth.
Of course, that is your main point. How comes this issue has suddenly arisen, especially if the same base collection it being used as before? I come complained on a similar issue with the England & Wales Marriage Registration collection. Suddenly, for no fathomable reason, the "possible alternatives" of spouse (of the individual on whom the search has been made) has been cut to one individual - often of the ****: an illegal position until recently! However, there appears to have been no change in the collection being used (citation still as before), so why the change? Well, I did ask some months ago, but even if the matter was escalated, we still have the same problem.
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@Paul W Thanks for that. I switched browsers and was able to leave feedback.
I discovered later yesterday that this new invention is also impacting the PQS. Made-up birth dates are showing as conflicting with documented details. I've posted about it in the PQS Group hoping an engineer/mod there will take the problem in hand.
When I dug into the details that caused the PQS conflict, I saw that there have been multiple baseless edits to the dates on my 2nd GGM's Irish death. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FTC3-32L
Name Sarah M'Garrity
Age 56
Birth Year (Estimated)
Jun 1835
Apr 1835
Event Type Death Registration
Event Date
Jun 1891
Apr 1891
Event Place Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland
Page Number 215
Volume Number 20
