ERROR REPORT - United States, Indexes to Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers Place Name
@SerraNola I hope you had a pleasant holiday weekend away from place name issues.
Collection: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2120733
United States, Indexes to Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers (NARA M629, M694, M872), 1784-1858, 1899-1901
Several of my Revolutionary era ancestors are documented in this collection. Unfortunately, locations in Georgia, USA have been transported to New Jersey, USA and Vermont, USA.
William Tindall: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6VYD-SQ69
Isaac Hill https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6VY8-R3Y1
Please could you add this one to your ever-growing list of problem collections.
Thanks.
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And to California
Isaac Hill: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6V7X-3TWL
And another to Vermont
John Barnett
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6VY8-RSZK
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I find the problems raised here to be "interesting". (Imagine please Mr Spock raising an eyebrow and saying "Interesting…")
In all cases, the Event Place (Original) is just "Georgia".
So there are 4 identical inputs. But there are 3 different outputs (looking at the top of the lists).
- Georgia, Freehold Township, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States
- Georgia, Franklin, Vermont, United States (twice)
- Georgiana Judicial Township, Sacramento, California, United States
How can 4 identical inputs come out with 3 different outputs? That's just not how hard-coded computer code works.
Possibly I'm wrong about the inputs being identical - maybe the metadata is different? - but there are only 2 Affiliate Publication Numbers.
The other possibility is that I am now beginning to wonder if this isn't written using ordinary code. Is FS using an Artificial Intelligence pattern recognition routine to deal with standardising these placenames? My impression (possibly wrong) is that AI pattern recognition is not guaranteed to come up with the same answer to the same question - and the AI routines cannot say why they come up with the answers that they do, because that's not what they are built to do.
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In the small mercies department, at least my 4th and 5th maternal great-grandfathers weren't transported to the country of Georgia. Yet.
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