Escalate? Western Pennsylvania records indexed in Indiana

dontiknowyou

Not a question.

"United States Census, 1840," database with images (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTV-NFW : 2 March 2021)

I am looking at a page image from the 1840 census of Western District, Pennsylvania. The catalog heading says Pennsylvania, Washington. The record original indexing says Canton, Washington. All okay so far. Here is the error: the "standard name" indexing says Canton, Washington Township, Washington, Indiana, United States.

It appears these have been confused:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton_Township,_Washington_County,_Pennsylvania

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canton,_Indiana

N Tychonievich

@dontiknowyou Thanks. Sorry that I failed to notice that it had been edited on that entry. We'll get the general issue moved to a specialty team. Since you have a private profile, you will not be contacted regarding the issue.

dontiknowyou

Thank you. That is fine. I do not need to be contacted.

Douglas McPhaden

Try this: Enter standardized dates and places into Family Tree • FamilySearch

dontiknowyou

@Douglas McPhaden perhaps I am not understanding your hint? You direct me to a page about how to add or correct place names in the FT standard place names gazetteer. Both Canton village and Canton Township are already in the gazetteer. The problem I report is different.

The problem is: This historical records collection has been mapped to the wrong standard.

Perhaps you meant to refer me to the index record editing tool?

https://www.familysearch.org/search/edit-record?record=/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTV-NFW&pid=/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTV-NFW&label=EVENT_PLACE

I used that to correct a single record on the page, so one of >20,000 records in the set. I hope my edit will come to the attention of the team that can correct the entire set. Here is a screen shot of my correction.

I got to the above index edit tool from the Edit link on this page:

Douglas McPhaden

I thought this was a question. What you want is for someone at FamilySearch to agree with your conclusion, and take action to correct the problem. Your comment is a borderline Question. I think you should submit it as an idea.

This is the way I differentiate Ideas and Questions is this. Asking for something that would require the the commitment of FamilySearch employees to respond, should be submitted as an Idea. Asking for a reply to your initial post that should only require the skills of a community member or a Missionary Support Representative should be submitted as a Question.

dontiknowyou

Correct, this is not a question. This is an error report.

Contributors are being asked to post such reports here in Q & A, not in Ideas. Certain persons are able to escalate them to wherever they need to go.

What could help is a keyword in the title. I think I can edit it...

N Tychonievich

@dontiknowyou It appears that the place error has been corrected. We went to the URL you provided: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHTV-NFW and we see the only one Event Place: Canton Township, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States.

We know that engineers have been working to correct many of this sort of issue. Looks like this is one they fixed.

dontiknowyou

@N Tychonievich , you see my own correction of that one record, the very same correction I show in my screenshots in this thread, above.

I estimate this set of census images records 20,000 households or very roughly 100,000 persons.

Can you confirm that the set is scheduled for wholesale correction of the incorrect state?