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Gender errors in extraction translations for records in Hungarian

J Pratt
J Pratt ✭
November 9 edited November 9 in Social Groups

There are problems with many of the Hungarian records from around the turn of the century. Here's an example I came across today (you should know I find this problem nearly every day, and it is not an isolated incident). Take a look at P76D-B11:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/linker?ark=/ark:/61903/1:1:6JS8-H1KB&id=P76D-B11&sourceType=hint

When I bring up her birth record in sourcelinker, she appears as a son. When I checked the image for the birth record, it clearly states that the child is a daughter. However, if I click "View record" from source linker, the sex is listed as "Férfi" (Hungarian), meaning "Male" (English).

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When I go back and check the information that was extracted, it reports that the sex was extracted as "F" for "Female", but when I look on the person details page, this is being translated back to Hungarian as "Ferfi" for "Male".

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I think there is a translation problem in the software so when someone extracts a record as a female, somewhere that is getting truncated to "F" which is then translated to hungarian as "Ferfi" and the gender is reported as male, when it was written and extracted as female.

A couple other examples I've found include PW4N-GHD and PW4F-VQF, both stillborn female siblings. I added both of these recently using AI suggestions that came up for their father (GB5M-788) and they came up as sons, yet they are clearly recorded and apparently extracted as female

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