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Quick Name Review - very confusng

David Iles
David Iles ✭
August 13 in Get Involved

I thought I would do a few reviews and started to review some US names. Has AI gone mad and created extra work? - It finds "Cem" in burial records after a place name and thinks it is a person name. It finds "Cash" in "Cash paid" in an accounting record. It declares an initial as a name (not even as a given name, the family name is a second 'person') - the option offered is to note it as "Not a person" - well a simple letter is not a person. It misreads "of Texas" after a person's name as the name Pecas. And in a probate record, is it really correct to extract from the typed name at the bottom of the cover page "Jones Smith and Brown" (or whatever, the solicitors) the three names (the original principals may well have died or retired by the date of the document). I gave up.

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  • barbaragailsmith1
    barbaragailsmith1 ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 13

    Yeah, it highlights a lot of words as person names. We just click on Not A Person. It gets some very readable names way off so we just correct them. If the "Jones Smith and Brown" is the name of a company or firm, we would click on Not A Person because we only index individual people, not names of companies.

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