How does one make a correction to an event place?
How does one make a correction to an event place? I keep running into entries for the 1950 Census for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The entries are coming up as follows:
Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
The entries should not have the 'Allegheny City' part attached. I can correct for each individual but it sure would be helpful for me and anyone else for the place name to be correct everywhere.
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There are major problems with FS' handling of placenames (see many other threads here on the subject). @Ashlee C. here is another placename report for you.
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@jenzroots Ashlee can only escalate with a specific example - the URL to a record index displaying the outdated Allegheny City reference.
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@jenzroots Do you have a specific example? A URL to one of the records you are looking at?
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I was seeing them all over and now I want to find one to report and I can't. Weird…. I will keep looking….
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@jenzroots There are 792,000 instances of an incorrect standardization for Pittsburgh in the 1950 census and yes, this has been reported. Although a URL is helpful, we don't necessarily need it if you can give a good description of what you are seeing and the name of the collection. Before we hand it off to engineers we try to determine how widespread the problem is in that particular collection. The repairs are made NOT one error at a time, but one "collection" at a time.
As always, thanks for reporting!
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@SerraNola We've been told repeatedly for many months that we MUST include the URL of a specific example.
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@SerraNola can you confirm that the root cause has been fixed so that newly added records in any collection do not compound the problem?
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile If for any reason someone cannot include a URL we still want them to report.
@MandyShaw1 No, I cannot confirm what happens when newly added records are added to a collection in which the placenames have been fixed. I couldn't find an example with records added after the date of the repair.
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Ok, finally came across another example…. What might be confusing is that at certain times there was a city called Allegheny within Allegheny County. This city no longer exists as it was annexed into Pittsburgh itself in 1907. Allegheny County still exists but the area listed on this example is definitely a part of Pittsburgh as the old town of Allegheny no longer exists. It is the 'event place (original)' that is the problem….
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9MY-SJLL?i=6
https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?ark=/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ6F-8ZM&id=GLWY-SLP&hinting=/tree/person/details/GLWY-SLPI have seen this same problem on the 1940 and 1950 census.
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