Standardized Location

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Jalyn Bertagnolli said: Can I add a place to the list of suggested Standardized places? The town of Galva Illinois is in Henry Co. however the cemetery for this town is in Knox Co. I can't choose Galva, Knox, Illinois, United States as a standard place for burial.

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Lundgren said: Thank you for your feedback!

You can suggest places on the places research site:

https://www.familysearch.org/research...

If you are on a desktop browser, in the bottom left corner of the page there is a small bit of text:

Can't find it? with a link next to it to "Suggest a New Place."

You can go all the way down to the cemetery to make it clear what you are suggesting like:
"Galva Cemetery, Knox, Illinois, United States"

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Tom Huber said: Jalyn, your message involves the Authorities and Standards FamilySearch teams. They welcome your feedback and help to improve FamilySearch Places, but do not always spot all requests and concerns. As such, they have asked us to send requests or concerns involving adding or improving entries in FamilySearch places to [email protected].

Questions and requests about places are assigned to the team member best qualified to respond. Once the request is in their queue, the team member will respond in the order received and as time permits.

The above text was provided by the team that handles this and I was asked to provide it for place location questions.

One comment about cemeteries. Generally speaking, the standard is often for where the cemetery records are kept, which may or may not be where the cemetery is located. Also, if the county boundary moved after the cemetery started being used, then there is a time element. All of these figure into the geophysical placement of the cemetery as far as the text is concerned. The place standards actual are coordinates, which allow a number of names to be used for the same place.

An example of this is Idaho Falls, Idaho. At one time it was known as Eagle Rock.

My mother was born in Freedom, Idaho, and later it was known as Slate Creek. For a while, there was no post office, so it was just a collection of buildings and even a cemetery. There is no longer a post office, but a ranger station. What gets confusing is that there is a town by the name of Freedom, located on the other side of the state along the Idaho/Wyoming border.

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Paul said: Tom

I have followed Lundgren's advice for now - too lazy to go into my email when there is a direct link on this website! However, I see when I "Submit" my request this automatically carries across my personal email address. I will wait to see if I get any email acknowledgement, or if my requested place name variants are added. If nothing were to happen, I'll obviously try your "route" to test if it is any more effective!

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Tom Huber said: Lundgren is suggesting the link that does the same thing as when you set up a message in your email client. Either way works.