location of the city is Sluis in Zeeland (not Brabant or North-Brabant) in the Netherlands
a number of sources in my tree refer to the location of the city of Sluis, Zeeland, Netherlands erroneously as in the former province of Brabant or in the current province of North-Brabant in the Netherlands. how could this be corrected?
see https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluis_(stad)
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@Piet-Jan This is a years long problem with wrong indexed place names for the netherlands. FS is aware of the problem, but I don't see any progress in solving it, for about 3 years allready. We as users cannot do anything about it, other then checking for the correct place if we make a entry on a person.
I also reported it to the fs place name database.
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@Piet-Jan @Lars van Ravenzwaaij It's interesting that the place name database links this name to the description in Wikipedia. I sent a request to fix this as well.
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@SerraNola exactly the same have I done twice allready. That Wikipedia entry is for the municipality not for the village. And it shows Zeeland and not Brabant as well.
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@Lars van Ravenzwaaij Well, at least it is corrected in the place name database. That's a start:
Dear SerraNola, That you for alerting us to the change for Sluis, Netherlands that it is in the province of Zeeland, NOT Brabant via FamilySearch Places. You will find this change in FamilySearch at the following URL: https://www.familysearch.org/en/research/places/?focusedId=11827838 Thank you for your interest in improving FamilySearch Places.
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@SerraNola - just a thought, for Sluis, Netherlands that it is in the province of Zeeland, needs to be one of the choices in Verify Places so people don't end up somewhere where they weren't born, etc.
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