Index Post-Processing Errors: Norwegian Census of 1891
The Norwegian Census of 1891 was posted or at least last updated on FamilySearch 26 March 2021, just this spring. The processing to prepare it for publication has caused some significant errors in place names.
It appears that all records for Tysnes in Hordaland county which had an original place name of just Tysnes had the place name changed to Tysnes, Nordland, Norway. Here is one example: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DJP1-LNZM with its corresponding entry in the Norwegian National Archive's record of the same https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01052966002568 which shows that the person's residence really was in Tysnes, Hordaland, Norway.
Some of the records for Tysnes, Hordaland, are in the census with the spelling of Tysnæs. The place name for these was changed to Tysnes Kyrkje (Tysnes Church), Tysnes, Hordaland, Norway such as in this example: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DJR4-GW6Z
It also appears that all the records for Lindås, Hordaland, a large municipality, had the place name updated to Lindås, Valestrand, Hordaland, a tiny farm in a completely different municipality. See, for example this record in FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DJ5V-NTPZ vs. this corresponding record on the archive's site: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/census/person/pf01052991005147
I am afraid these are just the tip of the iceberg. It appears that the original file for the census that FamilySearch started with had just the municipality names, Tysnes, or Tysnæs, or Lindås, and that the routine to create a full place name of Municipality, County, Country, whether automatic or by hand did not do a very good job of pulling the correct name from the Places database. Please put on someone's To Do list the job of reviewing and correcting the places names in the 1891 census.
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Thank you very much for your excellent documentation of this problem. We are forwarding this issue to a specialty team for review and resolution. You may be contacted by that team if they need to gather more information.
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