Canadian Conflict

Áine Ní Donnghaile

The FAQs indicate

For the quality indicator to appear on a page, all of the following conditions must be met:

• User language set to English
• Ancestor must be born between 1800 and 1920
• Ancestor must be born in Canada, the United Kingdom, or the United States.
• Experiment enabled (using button below)

I'm running into a Catch-22 when working on profiles for persons who were born in Ontario, Canada before 1867. If British Colonial America is shown as the place of birth, the Profile Quality Score is absent.

If Canada is used as the place of birth, the following error is shown:

Alfred C Kelly L5JJ-65T https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L5JJ-65T and his siblings are examples of this issue.

We covered a slightly different Canadian placename issue in a previous post back in October: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/152878/the-place-is-the-same-but-the-algorithm-doesnt-recognize-it#latest That one has been greatly improved. Thank you.

Windows 10, Firefox 123.0 64-bit, both fully updated.

Thanks.

roberthparker3

Looks like we were including:

• Canada (1867 - Present)
• Canada, New France (1534 - 1867)

Now we will also include

• British Colonial America (1607 - 1867)

This will probably go live Friday or Monday with a few other changes.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Thanks @roberthparker3

roberthparker3

FYI, this should be fixed as of March 13th... let me know if you are still having similar issues.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Thanks, @roberthparker3. That one is fixed. I'm still struggling with some other early Canadian profiles/records because the placename on the record is not in the places database. But, that's not a PQS issue.