Apparently the 1950 Jacksonville, FL census appears as Portland, Oregon in search results.

KariM · October 1, 2025

I've been looking up individuals in Jacksonville, FL for a Senior Mission project, and just found the second man I searched for in Florida listed in results as Portland, Multnomah, Oregon.

When I click on the resulting link, I am taken to the Jacksonville, FL census, but the name discrepancy is confusing.

Thanx,

KariM

KariM · October 1, 2025

This link is to the search result page:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?count=20&q.birthLikeDate.from=1908&q.birthLikeDate.to=1912&q.birthLikePlace=Mississippi%2C%20United%20States&q.givenName=William&q.surname=Sparrow&treeref=P3BR-3FQ

William Sparrow, the top result, is the name I was searching for.

KariM

GFre · October 2, 2025

Hi @KariM. The coding in auto-standardized place names sometimes mixes up where the record should actually be. In this case, instead of Jacksonville, Duval, FL, it somehow read this as the census location:
County: Florida
City: Multnomah
State: Portland

We have been asked to report standardization issues we find, as you have done here.

@SerraNola, it appears this page was the only one affected in the batch, but you may want to take a look. Thanks!

SerraNola · October 5, 2025

@KariM @GFre In this case, the error is in indexing and limited to this one page. It could be easily user edited, but unfortunately the place fields are locked. I have several other examples of this that need to be addressed by engineering. Thanks for bringing this one to our attention.

Apparently the 1950 Jacksonville, FL census appears as Portland, Oregon in search results.

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