Confusing text message in Scoring Section

monnettohio

I have come across some very confusing text in using the scoring section. This can be found on the profile for Hannah Monnett (married name, Hannah Gurley) K23S-M47. When I click on the profile rating, and the sidebar launches, under "Data is Conflict Free" the following text appears:
"This person had life events in Ohio Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States, then in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States, and then in Ohio Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States again. These places are 257 miles away, making this unlikely. This may indicate a bad merge."

Based on the current visible information in sources, this makes absolutely no sense.
- Active sources do not mention anything taking place in Indiana. This person lived her life in either Pickaway County Ohio, Crawford County, Ohio, or Marion (city of), Marion County Ohio, or Marion County Ohio. Could a record set have the wrong key words assign to it?
- Looking at her details page, there is no mention of an Ohio Township, Crawford County Indiana. So the "Consistency" issue doesn't tie back to a specific record.
- I did check with FamilySearch support which handles records, but they couldn't see where the two marriage records that happened in Crawford County, Ohio, were tied to Crawford County, Indiana, and they were not.

So why is this coming up? There were merges done by a distant cousin a few years ago. If that's the case, why is the system referring to possible relevant sources that are clearly visible?

I know I can dismiss these, but I haven't because it's important for you to see what I am seeing.

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/K23S-M47

Áine Ní Donnghaile

I have not, yet, seen such a message, but I would welcome such analysis, if it is well done. I commented here a few days ago about a profile that had been badly merged multiple times, with too many children born in too many different places, in the same year. The algorithm gave no such message. I've now cleaned up the bad merges, so I cannot check to see if it would now.

Rhonda Budvarson

@monnettohio Thank you for your feedback. I am not seeing this message. Can you recheck this and see if it has cleared up?

Thank you, Rhonda Budvarson

roberthparker3

Hi Monnett,

The three events were:

1. (13 December 1839) Marriage to John in Ohio Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States
2. (30 December 1842) Birth of son Jeremiah in Bucyrus, Crawford, Ohio, United States
3. (19 June 1845) Birth of son Leonard in Ohio Township, Crawford, Indiana, United States

Here are some reasons why this was especially confusing:

• Hannah has multiple marriage events to the same John, the one that is showing is correctly standardized
• The sentence is using the standardized place names rather than the original text.
• Crawford, Ohio vs Ohio Township, Crawford, Indiana
• The change log doesn't yet make it obvious what data was changed on Leonard's birth
• The birth place of Leonard was standardized to Crawford, Ohio, United States on July 16th 2024, making the issue go away.

We will keep working to make things better.

monnettohio

Thank you Robert.