Standard Location Records Update and Census records

LegacyUser

Reina Olivas said: I’m always happy to find updates and improvements to facilitate my family tree research and I’m enthusiastic about the latest update. However, I think they’re should be either an exception or alternative location addition for Census records and perhaps even some other Country specific records such as civil registrations for Mexico prior to civil registries ( before1860”s I believe).
I just tried the new feature and that was the case for both examples. I modified the one for the baptism which was easier since it narrows the search my city rather than by country, city, and a couple of nearby states. Although the same could be done for census records I think it eliminates details that could help research where ancestors lived. And though it’s not recognized by search algorithms, it’s factual data from census fields.

LegacyUser

Gordon Collett said: What new update are you referring to? The one in the mobile app that gives ten random Family Tree entries that are missing a standard place value so that anyone that has a few spare minutes can add these values?









Note that it states on every page:

"What you add will not overwrite or delete the user-entered place."

You are merely adding the standard value to the existing place name. You are not removing any information from the existing place name or otherwise editing it in any way. The displayed or user-entered place name is a separate piece of data from the standard place name.

What we are being given, is the opportunity to help get rid of all the red exclamation points beside place names. Doing so will bring those entries, possibility created by users who will never work on them again, into the possible duplicates routine and search routines so that other researchers can find them.