Is it possible to parse an entered place from right to left (highest to lowest political subdivision
When I'm recording places, especially death (from a death certificate) or later census enumerations (that have a street address), I will enter the full place, including the address.
Currently, finding the standard for these has a problem because parsing is from left to right (normal thinking in English language) or lowest political subdivision to highest. Unfortunately, this creates a lot of difficulty in identifying a standard (that is in the list) for the standard location.
Please consider as a feature, to parse (at least in the English language) places from right to left (highest to lowest political division) when looking for a standard.
Thank you.
P.S. Phil Jeffrey responded that he had opened a feature request, but thought I would duplicate my request here in case anyone on the authorities team wanted more information..
Risposte
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Tom,
I have forwarded your suggestion to those in charge.
Thanks for posting this possible enhancement.
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I just ran into an odd one. In this instance, the user entered a place with marriage details (something that was unneccessary) and it confused the daylights out of the standardized system.
There are actually two entries for the marriage and after engineering has had a chance to look at this and do nothing in this case, since the entry is incorrect (my opinion), then I'll clean things up. This entry came in from nFS and an attempt was made to standardize the place, but whom ever did it, did not pay attention to make sure what they had selected was the correct place. As I mentioned, I'll clean this up, but want to give the engineering team something to look at.
It also validates what Dan Shellman said in his reply (above) that parsing works in both directions. In this case, the highest to lowest political division failed because non-political data was entered at the end of the place.
The error in in the couple relationship area.
Husband: Stephen Clifford Bull L71G-CW1
Wife: Mary J. Surgeon L71G-CH3
Date: 30 OCT 1892
Place: Calhoun County, IL by James H. Lewis, Justice of the Peace
Standardized place: Justice, Cook, Illinois, United States
At the present time, the system fails to find any standardized place, so maybe the option to select which direction the system parses is something that is needed.
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