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Title: Marriage appears to have taken place in England and Cuba.
Post by: bolttail on Wednesday 21 February 24 16:02 GMT (UK)

Is there anyone out there with any idea as to how this could be? See attachment.

These entries must surely relate to the same marriage?

Title: Re: Marriage appears to have taken place in England and Cuba.
Post by: MollyC on Wednesday 21 February 24 16:19 GMT (UK)

In Family Search the drop-down lists for selecting places are a minefield, they invite mistakes, and recently seem to have become more unstable.  This looks like a conflation of Huntingdonshire and Holguin or something.  I have come across many single entries entered by volunteers located to the same place-name in the wrong country.

Title: Re: Marriage appears to have taken place in England and Cuba.
Post by: bolttail on Wednesday 21 February 24 16:35 GMT (UK)

Thanks MollyC. I should have thought of that possibility, but didn't. My brain was just about to overheat and explode.

Title: Re: Marriage appears to have taken place in England and Cuba.
Post by: MollyC on Wednesday 21 February 24 17:25 GMT (UK)

Don't worry.  I came across a mistake I had made several weeks earlier!

I wish there was a "Country" filter.  As most of the entries I do are in Yorkshire, I became sick to death of having to type the place-names every time right down to "Yor" before the right one appears in the selection window, which is very short.  Those are the places that are the origin of the names, so rather more people lived there than in the one-horse towns in South Africa or Georgia named after them.  I was just expanding existing trees and I don't use FS much now.  Someone described it as "Annoying, but sometimes useful".

Title: Re: Marriage appears to have taken place in England and Cuba.
Post by: Daisypetal on Wednesday 21 February 24 21:22 GMT (UK)

Hi,

If you look at the George Henly entry it shows that the information comes from "England, Huntingdonshire Parish Registers"  ::)

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7TX5-L9N2


Regards,
Daisy

Title: Re: Marriage appears to have taken place in England and Cuba.
Post by: bolttail on Thursday 22 February 24 09:02 GMT (UK)

Hi Daisy. Yes, so I see. I was having a problem the event being described as having taken place at Las Cruces de Purnio, Holguin, Cuba. That's quite a big transcription error to make, even for familysearch.

Title: Re: Marriage appears to have taken place in England and Cuba.
Post by: Wexflyer on Friday 23 February 24 01:53 GMT (UK)

Engaged in the slave trade. Pretty standard.

Reparations now due.