Errors in record locations

Mavon

In the record set Minnesota, Birth Index, 1935-2002 (https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/collection/1949334), a problem has recently started occurring. This only started occurring a few weeks ago, and was not an issue for many years before. Records in this set will always include the county of birth within Minnesota. But as of the last few weeks, the "Event Place" is completely wrong because it's trying to find a city or township (or seemingly random places) sharing the county's name. Dropping down the "Event Place" options with the arrow next to the location will show the correct location, but often below several additional incorrect locations. Here are some examples, all from one search for the name "James Anderson":

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCJH-RXJ?lang=en - Supposed to be Douglas County, is instead Douglas Township, Dakota County (and has some unrelated locations in the event places listed)

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCJW-CQ9?lang=en - Supposed to be Washington County, is instead Washington Township, Le Sueur County

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCJ4-GHL?lang=en - Supposed to be Blue Earth County, is instead Blue Earth, Faribault County

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VCNP-6BJ?lang=en - Supposed to be Ramsey County, is instead Ramsey Township, Anoka County

I am concerned with these issues because they have the potential to mess with many profiles on familysearch and other sites, spreading misinformation very quickly. I'd estimate more than half of the counties in Minnesota and therefore half of the over 4 million individual records in this record set are currently incorrect because of this. This has only been an issue for a few weeks, though, so whatever was going on before was working correctly and showing only the county of birth (with no attempt to match it to a city or township). Please look into this issue!

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

@SerraNola This sounds like our old "friend" place name standardization problems.

SerraNola

@Mavon It is definitely our old "friend" changing counties into towns, but this is more serious as there are no images to verify what is correct. Thank you reporting promptly. It will also be presented to engineering promptly.

Mavon

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/628768#Comment_628768

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/628818#Comment_628818

Thank you both for responding, sounds like this isn't an issue exclusive to this record set!