The error that has had the least impact so far, is the one where ‘Burgerlijke Stand’ (Civil Registration) is included in the place name in the index and found its way to member trees from there. These errors are pretty obvious, since the place name will say something like “Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.” I searched for the names of all Dutch provinces with Newfoundland behind it and found over 100,000 incorrect profiles. That is remarkable for a tiny municipality that has only existed since 1997! I estimate that at least 900,000 of these records should say “Holland” instead of Reusel.Īnother error causes Dutch place names that had “NL” to be resolved to “Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada” instead of “Netherlands”. I found almost 1 million records for people who lived in Reusel-De Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands in Ancestry Member Trees, many going back to the 16th or 17th century. But this isn’t the biggest error caused by software. People were especially appalled by the error that caused ‘Burgerlijke Stand’ (Civil Registration) to be included in the place name. The article I wrote about major problems with new Dutch records on sparked some great discussions both here and on several Facebook groups.
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