Apparently the 1950 Jacksonville, FL census appears as Portland, Oregon in search results.

KariM

I've been looking up individuals in Jacksonville, FL for a Senior Mission project, and just found the second man I searched for in Florida listed in results as Portland, Multnomah, Oregon.

When I click on the resulting link, I am taken to the Jacksonville, FL census, but the name discrepancy is confusing.

Thanx,

KariM

KariM

This link is to the search result page:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?count=20&q.birthLikeDate.from=1908&q.birthLikeDate.to=1912&q.birthLikePlace=Mississippi%2C%20United%20States&q.givenName=William&q.surname=Sparrow&treeref=P3BR-3FQ

William Sparrow, the top result, is the name I was searching for.

KariM

GFre

Hi @KariM. The coding in auto-standardized place names sometimes mixes up where the record should actually be. In this case, instead of Jacksonville, Duval, FL, it somehow read this as the census location:
County: Florida
City: Multnomah
State: Portland

We have been asked to report standardization issues we find, as you have done here.

@SerraNola, it appears this page was the only one affected in the batch, but you may want to take a look. Thanks!

SerraNola

@KariM @GFre In this case, the error is in indexing and limited to this one page. It could be easily user edited, but unfortunately the place fields are locked. I have several other examples of this that need to be addressed by engineering. Thanks for bringing this one to our attention.