Download, fix and upload all place names for a given area
Is there a way of downloading all existing standard place names for a given area (e.g. county) into a spreadsheet that a person or team could update and later upload into the standard place name list? I may have missed a similar discussion.
Many of my ancestors come from Prescott County, Ontario, Canada, which is currently badly served by the standard place names. This has resulted in many, many source records being indexed against incorrect place names. While I try to clean these up as I go along, I realize that the existing standard place names list caused the volunteers to choose the wrong places. Until we get the list fixed, volunteers will continue to make such errors. It also limits my ability to properly fix the records I find.
IMO, it would be easiest to do this work via a spreadsheet with all variations of each place name next to each other. The current tool only allows one place name at a time which would make the changes I'd like to see a very long and tedious job.
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Unfortunately, this is not an option at this time. We do have a team of volunteers working on upgrading and updating places in US and Canada. It is a slow and difficult process, but in time we feel we can clean up the data.
On the "upside" - if you would like to volunteer to work with this county, let us know. We do accept volunteers. 🙄
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