Some 1840 US census reports are no longer indexed to the right place

LegacyUser

Ryan Torchia said: I'm seeing this happen more often. The search and record lists a different place, although the images are in the correct catalog. Here's two examples:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619...
Indexed as Surry, Virginia, but for Surry, North Carolina

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619...
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619...
Indexed as Wayne, Mississippi, but for Wayne, Kentucky

These were indexed correctly before -- the residence entries for them show the correct location. They're not found if you search for the location.

I've also seen a lot of entries where they can't resolve the location, so it just links to "United States", even though they're filed into the right catalogs:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/r...

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: I suspect these were early indexes so when the films were digitized and matched to the indexes, someone missed getting the right image with the associated index entries.

I can see where this can happen with the same name for a county used in more than one state.

FamilySearch will need to address this issue and verify the situation in the instances you've found and all other instances where a county name is found in more than one state at the time of the census enumeration.

LegacyUser

Ryan Torchia said: I don't think it's just a problem with how they were indexed, because these used to be working correctly. This is a recently introduced bug, where however the system determines the record location got disconnected from the geographic location the individual volumes were assigned to.

I honestly think it's affecting the entire 1840 census database, but just isn't apparent when the indexed location is complete enough for the system to guess the right place. My guess is it'd be a relatively easy fix.

LegacyUser

Ryan Torchia said: Any update on this? Is somebody at least looking into it? It's still happening and severely impeding progress.