Place names and census error being prevented by putting hints oldest date first in chronological ord

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Wende Jacqueline Graves said: There is a big problem with the temptation to put in “of (place) country” in the birth location which locks out the correct location. If there was a user input place for “ resident of place country “, this would at least not lock out the exact location later. Also, putting hints in oldest date first order could help avoid the problem with step families because the female adult is assumed to be the mother resulting in family history work being duplicated. I appreciate all the hard work that is done by many. Thank you. Also, if you could have a place expert putting in map data for the locations and maybe a language look up since north south east and west can match and Germany can be be in German that could clarify or the alternate could be the English translation or native version. I love doing the place names. It makes productive use of otherwise lost time!

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Tom Huber said: Welcome back to the community-powered public feedback forum for FamilySearch. FamilySearch personnel read every discussion thread and may or may not respond as their time permits. We all share an active interest in using the resources of this site and as users, we have various levels of knowledge and experience and do our best to help each other with concerns, issues, and/or questions.

You can go ahead and put that in the user entered portion of any place-related event. It can contain any type information, including "of" or "resident of" or even "possibly from".

What is controlled is the standard. That is needed for searching and other purposes by FamilySearch. It can be very broad, such as Holy Roman Empire, or detailed down to a cemetery.

FamilySearch accommodates many languages. It does not accommodate (as far as I know) a mix of languages for one individual. Entries are usually in the language of the FamilySearch user.

The search routines have recently changed, which have resulted in some interesting (and hopefully, more accurate) results.

Any FamilySearch user can adjust the parameters of a search to meet their needs. If I am searching for a person and do not know where they were born, I will search with different parameters, just to see what can be found. If I use "Find similar people" from a person's details page, I can adjust those parameters, too.

As far as date order for hints, hints either apply to the person or they don't. They are either accepted and the source attached to the person, or they are dismissed. The hinting mechanism can and does bring up bad hints. They need to be processed because they may hold the key to what you are searching for.