birth places
Lewis, Kentucky and Lewis, Kentucky, United States with warning they are 117 miles apart
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@jehanderson can you give us a PID for the profile, or a screenshot where you are seeing this?
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What is being compared is not the place name that is displayed on the profile page, but rather the standardized place name linked to the place name. In order to see the linked standard you need to click on the place name to open the Data View pop up (or hover over the place name until the linked standard appears in a tool tip).
When the Displayed Place Name and the linked Standardized Place Name are identical, the data view pop up will show something like this:
When the Displayed Place Name and the linked Standardized Place Name are different, the data view pop up will show something like this:
(Hovering over the place name and waiting for the tool tip looks like this:)
It is this powerful feature of Family Tree which allows place names to have more detail and accuracy than a simple standard list of names could ever allow. It can occasionally cause some confusion when not understood and not used properly.
I can guarantee you with nearly 100% certainty that your two place names, Lewis, Kentucky, and Lewis, Kentucky, United States, are linked to two different standards and that those two standardized places are 117 miles apart.
Another quick way to see where the problem is, is to take a look at the Timeline map because the Timeline map displays the linked standard, not the displayed place name. I'm also sure that you will see that the map pins for the standard linked to Lewis, Kentucky and the standard linked to Lewis, Kentucky, United States, are 117 miles apart.
You can fix this by re-standardizing whichever of the two place names are linked to the wrong standard. I assume you will find it to be Lewis, Kentucky, since that is an incomplete place name.
It is a great benefit of the Data Quality Checker that it will find these place name standardization errors for us.
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