Age at marriage
I have noticed that the system is confusing marriage records that provides a confirmation that bride (or groom) is at least 18 years of age, with a marriage license that requires an actual date of birth.
For example, on Cordelia Fickle (KZ72-LHK), who was born 30 September 1837 in Marion County, Ohio, and married on 2 October 1859 in the same county. In 1859, Marion County Ohio was using a form that merely confirmed that the parties had reached the age that allowed them to marry without parental permission.
The system is saying that her birthdate conflicts with the date on the certificate which the system is imputing as 1841 (1859-18= 1841) based on the age allowed to wed. You get the following message:
"Cordelia Fickle, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016" has a date of 1841 for birth, which is different from 30 September 1837."
The problem isn't her date of birth, but the system shouldn't confuse the verification language of meeting a legal age to wed as a conflicting birth year.
I do not know if this is happening in other states, but I have come up against with forms used in by some Ohio counties from 1867 - 1900ish.
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZ72-LHK
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I've seen a similar message when the profile has a Cook County, Illinois delayed birth registration. The algorithm calculates the mother or father's year of birth using the year of the delayed registration rather than the year of birth of the child.
An example: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GC2W-3YZ
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