Related: Reporting Errors on Family Search Records Pages
At some time, I read a discussion that explained that in some cases, a batch of sources belongs to another company and thus we cannot make edits to correct bad indexing. While I understand that, I have been noticing an increasing amount of bad place name indexing. I do not know if these were preexisting, but it seems to have increased at the same time the place name standardization project happened. What I am finding are multiple pages of a census having wrong state connected. In today's case, it is marriage records.
The first case I ran across it was in a census that allowed place name editing. I manually edited 3 pages of the census before I gave up. Sorry for giving up. Only the town name was the same, the county name was different, and so was the state. (coded New York, should have been Massachusetts)
All the marriages in 1833 (and many other years) for Southampton Massachusetts are coded as Southampton, England, UK
Surely this could be fixed? And wouldn't a way to report a massive copy paste index problem be helpful?
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I recently raised a similar issue. FamilySearch should be encouraging reporting of errors like this, but do not appear to have the resources (especially a dedicated section) to put these matters right.
There have been examples like this that have remained untouched for many years, in spite of being reported. Instead of making any progress in dealing with such matters, FamilySearch recently made it less clear on how we should report errors found in the Catalog. There used to be a direct link, on the page itself, whereby an error (e.g. wrongly catalogued heading) could be reported. The link has now been transferred to another page!
I remain ever optimistic that one day FamilySearch will recognise this as a priority and set-up a link to a dedicated team, to whom such errors can be reported and promptly corrected.
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I found a possible / Probable error for my Great grandfather. His name is Cephas Shelburne Montgomery ID L76S-7ST - b. 1855, d.1924. He married Julia Franklyn Teel. Whomever created this page says that he died and was buried in Montgomery Family Cemetery, Wood River Township, Madison, Illinois, United States. This does not make any sense. His wife, his kids, his father and mother were all buried in the Montgomery Cemetery in Boone's Mill, Franklin County, VA. I can't find any records of a death in either place, so if there is any, I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
Shannon
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Many people have noticed the same issue, Gordon Collett has created an 'Idea' as a placeholder for all these incidents
This is primarily directed at FS indexing where the place name has been modified by some algorithm, but it might equally well serve as a place to mark errors with sources from other providers in the hope that the message will be passed on.
I'm just a normal person. Though 'normal' tends to vary considerably depending on the sample.
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