tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post387498002127967546..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: Darned Oliver, Kankakee, IllinoisThe Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-55198788902560949512011-11-04T12:38:25.769-06:002011-11-04T12:38:25.769-06:00Just found another variation on place indexing err...Just found another variation on place indexing errors at Family Search:<br />American cities that have the same name as a European city will be filter in Europe, if the index did not specify the country or state.<br />Examples:<br />A child born 1882 in "Toledo" and died 1885 in "Toledo, Lucas, Ohio" filters as born in "Spain";<br />A child born 1889 in "Dublin" and died 1889 in "Dublin Twp., Mercer, Ohio" filters as born in "Ireland".<br />I've seen the reverse as well in U.S. records, but find that a little more understandable.bgwiehlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00904956507742860598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-65388994700375413682011-10-28T23:04:26.207-06:002011-10-28T23:04:26.207-06:00Your implied suggestion for indexers (and the supr...Your implied suggestion for indexers (and the suprevisory/organizational staff who set up templates) to have locality lists handy is a good one. But it does no good to have great gazetteers available if ~no one looks at them~.<br /><br />There are great and easy to find locality lists and guides for England, Scotland and Wales, but -- lest it be thought that Ancestry.com does better than FamilySearch -- Ancestry.com can't seem to figure out how to get places listed in the right old-Counties or shires (for Census enumerations). Or even how to name localities correctly for USA post-1840 enumerations when they are almost always very clearly written at the top of the page. Want Orient Gore? Search for Orient Grove. Eagle District? Search for Cogle. In some collections some USA Counties in PA, ME and MD have "shire" appended to the name (except Worcester, which is spelt Worchester). One could go on a long time about this.<br /><br />And the spell-out of the 1850 US Census abbreviation "Ia." for Indiana is still usually "Iowa" at Ancestry.com. One hundred and sixteen thousand times for people then living in Indiana. Iowa's total population was counted as 192,531 in the 1850 enumeration.Geoloverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050268303916428230noreply@blogger.com