Place Auto Standardizing US Census 1840

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@SerraNola please

1840 US Census for Greene County, Georgia shows a series of other counties at the top while the Citation box shows Hall County.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHBZ-D5V

Thank you.

SerraNola

@Áine Ní Donnghaile As if it wasn't already a monumental task to document place name errors in search results it is showing up everywhere, including citations. I already had the 1840 census on the list for multiple place name errors. Now I have Bern Township, Berks, Pennsylvania showing up as Bern, Switzerland with a citation of Adams County, PA.

This 1840 census citation error seems to be across the board and is similar to the problems in the 1900 Census. In that census, the place name for all counties on the same film show up in "search results" with the name of one county—often it's the first one on the film but not always. This 1840 census citation mess up looks like the same issue. The name of one county is used in the citation for every county on the film. In checking the 1900 census I see that the "citation" also has the same wrong location as the search results.

In every case I have encountered where everything on one film gets the same name, that place name is found in the header.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Thanks, @SerraNola. The issue is so pervasive I worry about the future of the database.

SerraNola

That makes two of us.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Thank you for all your efforts. You ARE appreciated.