Images discrepancies
There are two places identified as "Sociedad, Las Villas, Cuba" when searching for images on Cuba (https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/search-results?page=1&place=219). The first one has 142 images. It has the film for Surrey, England, United Kingdom, Court Records, which has nothing do with “Sociedad, Las Villas, Cuba”. Yes, on the right-hand side it indicates that it is the second item on roll. The first item does relays to “Sociedad, Las Villas, Cuba” but that is the third line of the 177 results for Cuba. Similar issues can be found with the other results about Cuba. Removing those “extras” from the results will reduce the number of results associated with Cuba and add the other results to their proper places.
A search for Surrey, England does not provide a similar record result. So that information is "missing" for those searching for Surrey, England record.
The other results for Cuba have similar issues as there are images for Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Japan and other.
All the results should be properly identified.
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If you want to follow this matter further, you should write to Support, top right hand corner of the website.
However, see my post "Request for more resources for Historical Records" dated 8 April 2021.
where I said "More resources for Historical Records are needed!
I send a request through Support regarding records in the Catalog.
I received a reply which in part said (my change to Uppercase for emphasis)
We have documented the errors and reported them to our records team. We currently have a backlog of corrections regarding our historical records. AS A RESULT, IT COULD TAKE LONGER THAN A YEAR TO CORRECT THE ERRORS. Since this has been reported, we will close your case".
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Thanks MaureenE123. Your case was closed, so is anyone working out the backlog?
Due to this backlog, is there another way to find records? Some of the records that I have found, provided valuable information
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I had a closer look at the microfilm you have quoted above and noted it had a DGS number 007717907
Looking in the FamilySearch catalog gives the Search result https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A007717907
This shows that item 1 of the film is the Cuban records "Magazine de "La Lucha", 1926" described as "Notes La sección "Magazine" del periódico La Lucha. History and description of Santa Clara and other towns in former Las Villas Province, Cuba".
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/229055
Item 2 is described as part of "Surrey quarter sessions records"
DGS number 007717907 above is the first microfilm I have seen split into items, and I think this may only apply if you find the records through the image search, not through the Catalog search.
I think the problem with the images search is that somehow the image search results are linking to the wrong item number. Also for the citation of the records, all the records, including the English ones, are citing the Cuban source.
Trying to look at the results through the image Search now I get the message "Server failed to get results". However, I did notice before I stated typing this reply that down the bottom of the Microfilm display (via images search) there was a Feedback button, so as a change in what I said previously I would report through the Feedback button and refer to this Ideas topic.
It seems very STRANGE to me that the Records display differently according to whether you access them through the IMAGE SEARCH or through the CATALOG SEARCH. I am unable to check this out further as currently I cannot look at ANY microfilms.
Other than checking through the Catalog for records, sorry I can't offer any suggestions about record Search.
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