Mistakes in Birthplace (Indexation?)/ Slovakia

KlaraVeres

Hello,

from some time of period, the following discrepancy occured in search function.

For example, the below Tót surnames all was born in Tardoskedd, Nove Zamky, Slovakia, but for some reason their BirthPlace is shown as Komárno, Slovakia - however if you click on the name, their real birth place is correct! Thus, in case of refining search only for Tardoskedd, the filter will not include Komárno.

Search Results - Tót

This kind of mistake in BirthPlace is common also for other regions, districts in Slovakia.

Could you please help?

Klara Veres

MandyShaw1

@SerraNola one for you I think

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Not an indexing error, but an error introduced by the auto standardizer. We often see that the algorithm shows different place names in the search results than on the record.

StephenDespot

I've seen that same place show up in places I research in out of Slovakia too. It will still narrow places down if you put in the actual place but that name will come up. I just ignore it most of the time because I know when I go on the catalogs or open up the people I'm searching that the correct information will be given for location.

SerraNola

@KlaraVeres This error in search results is found on two film #'s, 5218755 and 5218756, both of which show Komárno, Slovakia on the new film viewer's header and citation. Both films are entirely the records of Tardošked, Nové Zámky, Slovakia. On 5218756 the name Slovensko, Czechoslovakia also pops up, but that can also be ignored.

It's often hard to find the mistakes in Eastern European place names so thanks for shining the light on this one!