Re: FamilySearch introducing errors

Subject	Re: FamilySearch introducing errors
Newsgroups	soc.genealogy.computing
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From	Ian Goddard <ianng@austonley.org.uk>
Date	2021-10-31 17:06 +0000
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On 30/10/2021 14:30, Richard Damon wrote:
> 
> On 10/30/21 8:51 AM, knuttle wrote:
> 
>> In my opinion, the location is so that I can go to any current map and 
>> locate where the family lived. In this way when in the area I can 
>> easily travel to that location.   If I use the name of community that 
>> no longer exist, I may never find the family farm.  The historical 
>> location is put in the description, or a note if the information on 
>> the historical location is to large for the description.
> 
> The problem with trying to record what a place is called 'now' is that 
> 'now' changes. Do you really work hard to keep up on how EVERY place 
> might get adjusted. For some places, that may be fairly stable, but for 
> others (like eastern Europe) it is quite fluid.
> 
> That is why MY standard (and I will allow that others may do it 
> differently) is to record the place as it was at that time, with 
> comments of how that might have changed in more modern times.

I haven't looked for a while (and I doubt it would have changed) but 
baptisms etc were shown as "Manchester Cathedral" although it was still 
a parish church at the time.

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  Re: FamilySearch introducing errors Ian Goddard <ianng@austonley.org.uk> - 2021-10-29 09:48 +0100
    Re: FamilySearch introducing errors Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2021-10-30 06:54 +0200
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      Re: FamilySearch introducing errors knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2021-10-30 08:51 -0400
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          Re: Locations (was: Re: FamilySearch introducing errors) knuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2021-10-30 18:06 -0400
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        Re: FamilySearch introducing errors "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2021-10-30 16:23 +0100
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