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   Steve Hayes to rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
   Re: FamilySearch introducing errors   
   31 Oct 21 20:32:01   
   
   XPost: soc.genealogy.computing, soc.genealogy.misc, alt.genealogy   
   XPost: england.genealogy.misc   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 08:38:07 +0100, Graeme Wall   
    wrote:   
      
   >> When I copy this event to my own family tree, it does not copy the   
   >> original event place, but the spurious Chichester one.   
   >>   
   >> I hope the people at FamilySearch will soon correct this software bug,   
   >> but until they do, people who use FamiloySearch should be warned that   
   >> they need to treat every place name as suspect.   
   >>   
   >> Ancestry.com have long done this kind of thing, but it is new on   
   >> FamilySearch.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   >One I came across was my gg-grandfather's christening at St Thomas   
   >Charterhouse, Clerkenwell (now demolished). The Family Search index   
   >shows it as St Thomas, Virgin Isles!   
      
   Another good example of the kind of thing I am talking about.   
      
      
      
      
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