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What are they looking for when a data error shows up saying "not a standardized marriage place."

deut
deut ✭
July 9, 2021 edited July 18, 2024 in Family Tree

I have marriage place as a county in a state.

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  • Colin Ramsbottom
    Colin Ramsbottom ✭✭✭
    July 9, 2021 edited July 9, 2021 Answer ✓

    FamilySearch has a list of standardized placenames that it uses so the computer can recognize place names accurately and can give you the best information when you are doing research. If the name you have entered is not recognized by the system, you will get a message that the place name is not standardized. You can choose the closest place name that fits, or you can ask that a new or improved place name can be added as an update.


    The following articles from the FamilySearch Help Centre will help you:

    https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-enter-dates-and-places-into-family-tree
    https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-add-or-correct-a-standardized-place-in-family-tree
    https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/in-family-tree-what-do-the-map-pin-icons-and-exclamation-points-by-place-names-mean

    Hope this helps.

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  • MNuttall
    MNuttall ✭✭✭
    July 9, 2021 Answer ✓

    Besides the county and state, you also need to add the country.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 10, 2021 edited July 10, 2021 Answer ✓

    Deut, The Help Center article mentioned above is incomplete and confusing. Be sure to still enter a complete place name and link it to the closest place in the database. You do not need to limit yourself to the name in the database since the database is far from complete.

    Both of these marriage places are correctly standardized even though only one of is the database so far:

    Screen Shot 2021-07-09 at 5.57.39 PM.png Screen Shot 2021-07-09 at 6.00.44 PM.png

    You only get the "not a standardized marriage place" data error when the marriage place looks like this:

    Screen Shot 2021-07-09 at 6.01.11 PM.png

    Since you have this last example where you have the marriage place as a county and state, since all US counties are in the database, as you found, this is easy to correct and make your entry be in the style of the first example above.

    The second article is accurate, but since you just have the county, you do not need to request a new place be entered.

    The third article about map pins or lack thereof is pretty good, but I wish it stressed that the lack of a map pin is perfectly fine. It is only the red exclamation point that needs correction.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    July 9, 2021

    @deut , if you post the person ID we can take a look.

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  • deut
    deut ✭
    July 9, 2021

    Thanks All. Worked out fine.

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