New Issue: Duplicate entries in Standardized Place List

JaneSmith2600

I have used the Fix Place Names tool many, many times. As of today, I'm seeing lots of duplicates, even triplicates in the Standardized Place list. Out of 10 in one batch, 3 or 4 had either duplicates or triplicates. I have never seen this before. Before you ask, they weren't variations based upon different time spans where there is a borough or township, a town or village, and then a city (depending upon a year). They are true duplicates. Here is one I ran into:

Little Chute, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States

Thanks in advance for addressing.

Sheryl

danvreeves

Thank you for alerting us to this issue! In the case of Little Chute, it is a simple and straight-forward duplicate. I have merged the two into one. We (FamilySearch's Authorities Team) will do some investigating and clean up other duplicate entries that we can identify.

Brett .

@Sheryl Neal Slaughter

Sheryl

You NEED to post this information, in most probably TWO (x2) areas ...

.

FIRSTLY ...

In "𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬"; as, a New Idea ...

Under two (x2) "𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬", they being ...

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞; and

Home  >  Ideas  >  General User Interface

https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/general-user-interface

https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/general-user-interface𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞

Home  >  Ideas  >  Family Tree

https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/family-tree

https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/family-tree.

SECONDLY ...

In the 'Group' in the "Community.FamilySearch" Fortum being ...

𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬

https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/68-familysearch-places

https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/68-familysearch-places.

Or, even, ...

Through, a direct E-mail to the [ "Authorities Team" ] "Standards Team" of the "Research/Places" Database in 'FamilySearch'.

E-mail: 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤@𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡.𝐨𝐫𝐠

.

This area is really just for "Questions" and "Answers" of Users/Patrons.

I hope this helps.

Brett

Gordon Collett

Yep, something funny is going on. I would wonder if an update to the place name database went awry. Here is your example in the Places database itself:

The name, parent jurisdiction, and place type are identical. Latitude and longitude vary just a bit. The information you get when you click on each name such as Research Links, Alternate Names, and Sources vary just a little.

I hope this problem is limited in scope and easy for the Places Authority team to identify and fix.

Brett .

@danvreeves

Dan

Question:

Does your response, as an "Official 'FamilySearch' Representative", of the [ "Authorities Team" ] "Standards Team" of the "Research/Places" Database in 'FamilySearch', mean/imply that there is NO requirement to post matters such as this in, either,

(1)  𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬

Under two (x2) "𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬", they being ...

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐔𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞

Home > Ideas > General User Interface

https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/general-user-interface

𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐞

Home  >  Ideas  >  Family Tree

https://community.familysearch.org/en/categories/family-tree

OR ...

(2)  𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬

In the 'Group' in the "Community.FamilySearch" Fortum being ...

𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬

https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/68-familysearch-places

OR, for that matter ...

Send a "E-mail" directly to the [ "Authorities Team" ] "Standards Team" of the "Research/Places" Database in 'FamilySearch' at "𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤@𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡.𝐨𝐫𝐠"

any longer?

In other words, is the to the [ "Authorities Team" ] "Standards Team" of the "Research/Places" Database in 'FamilySearch' now MONITORING this "𝐐 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀" part of the NEW Platform of the "Community.FamilySearch" Forum?

The reason I ask, is that ...

IF, such is the case; THEN, I will NOT bother to suggest such in the future.

'Thank You' in advance.

Brett

Gordon Collett

I highly doubt anyone from the Places team is monitoring this Q and A section and, of course, the FamilySearch Places group would have been the best place for Sheryl to post her concern.

I would instead assume that the various people who do monitor the sections here do know who each other are and can contact each other. Most likely someone as a courtesy to and convenience for both Sheryl and Mr. Reeves notified him of the concern.