XPost: soc.genealogy.computing, soc.genealogy.misc, alt.genealogy   
   XPost: england.genealogy.misc   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 16:02:53 +0100, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 30/10/2021 05:54, Steve Hayes wrote:   
      
   >> Event Type:	Census   
   >> Event Date:	1841   
   >> Event Place: Chichester St Martin, Chichester, Sussex, England, United   
   >> Kingdom   
   >> Event Place (Original):	St Martin, Essex, England   
   >> County:	Essex   
   >> Parish:	St Martin   
      
   >> When I copy this event to my own family tree, it does not copy the   
   >> original event place, but the spurious Chichester one.   
   >   
   >Looking at the list there are two Event Places, the Chichester one and   
   >Event Place (Original) which is the correct one.  This suggests to me   
   >that it has been "corrected" by someone with a limited grasp of British   
   >geography.  It may have been a batch correction for the entire census.   
   >Alternatively it might have been yet another artefact of slipshod data   
   >entry and QA given that Chichester comes before Colchester alphabetically.   
      
   I very much doubt that it has been corrected by a "someone", but   
   rather a "something", shich is programming to substitute a   
   FamilySearch standardized place name for the original event name.   
      
   In the event I changed the place name to "Colchester St Martin, Essex,   
   England" and copied it back to FamilySearch it has been "standardized"   
   to "St Martin's Church, Colchester, Essex, England, United Kingdom".   
      
   Now that would be fine if it were a baptism or marriage that had taken   
   i'place in the church, but I doubt that anyone was actually *residing*   
   in the church at the time of the census.   
      
   I'm pretty sure it's a programming error by programmers who think they   
   are infallible, and think they now exactly what they are doing when   
   they don't.   
      
   And the longer it persists, the more errors will creep in, and the   
   less useful the FamilySearch Family Tree and record indexes will   
   become.   
      
      
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