United Kingdom or just England
I found a problem when I was reviewing my pedigree. Many relatives have listed England, United Kingdom as a place when it should be just England. These are for early dates for example 1630 and 1578. They United Kingdom was not formed until 1922 or 1800 according to a google search. When FamilySearch offers a standardized place option could they please reflect the date that the United Kingdom was created?
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This is already generally the case, as illustrated by the two standard place names offered if I input "Ninebanks (Northumberland)" when inputting an event for an individual in Family Tree.
As you can see, I am offered the options with the "United Kingdom" suffix (if the event took place from 1801) or without it, if up to 1801. If you find one or the other is not an option in the drop-down, you can request FamilySearch to add the name with the missing format.
Otherwise, if the event has been added incorrectly, just replace it (from the pick-list) with the name appropriate for the period.
However, if you are referring to how the name is recorded in a FamilySearch Historical Record (found at https://www.familysearch.org), the "mistake" is unlikely to be changed by FamilySearch, who would not regard the difference to be significant enough to warrant amendment (particularly in respect of the ability of a researcher being able to find the source of an indexed record).
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This is already generally the case, as illustrated by the two standard place names offered if I input "Ninebanks (Northumberland)" when inputting an event for an individual in Family Tree.
As you can see, I am offered the options with the "United Kingdom" suffix (if the event took place from 1801) or without it, if up to 1801. If you find one or the other is not an option in the drop-down, you can request FamilySearch to add the name with the missing format.
Otherwise, if the event has been added incorrectly, just replace it (from the pick-list) with the name appropriate for the period.
However, if you are referring to how the name is recorded in a FamilySearch Historical Record (found at https://www.familysearch.org), the "mistake" is unlikely to be changed by FamilySearch, who would not regard the difference to be significant enough to warrant amendment (particularly in respect of the ability of a researcher being able to find the source of an indexed record).
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I am finding it very frustrating when looking up a person/event 1500/1600 etc. that a name gives say 'marriage' and the new spouse's name and date but only gives say, 'Devon' but offers a photo of that event from a Parish Register. Enlarging that page image then often gives the actual date, -great but there is still no way of finding out WHERE that register was from. Just 'Devon' is far too broad. When details have been recorded for FamilySearch why was the Town/Church it was from not recorded? There is too much guess work going on by people such as, - assuming because a female was born in a certain place and all the children were born in the same place that it is "automatically assumed the parents were married there also"! There are so many records with missing Church/Place details such as this in FamilySearch records.
Peter Tucker
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@PeterTucker2, it is often possible to identify the recording location with a bit of detective work. For example, the index currently identifies the location of this 1850 marriage as just "Slovensko, Czechoslovakia": https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6N9F-8WGV
(Neither Czechoslovakia nor Slovakia had been invented yet in 1850.) In this case, all I need to do is go to the image and look at the top of the page to see that the actual location (and denomination) was the Lutheran church in Dunaszerdahely, which I happen to know was in Pozsony county, Hungary until the end of the first world war. If I didn't know that, or if the page failed to identify a location, I would first click the Information tab at the bottom of the image viewer screen. If it listed just a single item, I could click that item to go to the corresponding Catalog page, which should generally identify the place and other relevant details. In this case, it's a many-item film, though, so first I would click the thumbnails button ("browse multiple images") in the little toolbox at the top left, then scroll up (and up...) to see that the image is in the first item on the film. Then I could click the single-image button ("view single image") to go back to that Information tab and click the line corresponding to item 1. The resulting catalog page (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1301281) tells me that I was looking at "Evangelical Lutheran Church parish registers registers of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and miscellaneous records for Dunajská Streda, Dunajská Streda, Slovakia; formerly Duna-Szerdahely (aka Ujfalu Elötejed, Nemesszeg, Szerdahely, Serdahely, Dunaszerdahely), Pozsony, Hungary; and Dunajská Streda, Dunajská Streda, Slovensko, Czechoslovakia."
As for why this information wasn't recorded: it generally was recorded, but that data has been lost due to various automated processes that FS has run.
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