Iowa Territory in location table

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Could Iowa Territory, United States please be added to the location table for the dates Jul 4, 1838 - Dec 28, 1846 (as shown on the US placename spreadsheet and per Wikipedia.

Example -- Profiles with that as a birth location (some most outside appropriate date range)

Thanks

Edited to change "some" to "most". It seems like this could be a variant of Iowa, United States but only acceptable for the short time span.

Edited to clarify: I think this should be a variant of Iowa, United States, with a date range for which it is correct This way locations using Iowa Territory would be included in reports for Iowa and when one searches for the region Iowa. Iowa Territory is added incorrectly to many location, probably because of the drop-down list, and it would be very useful to have all the profiles (whether correct or incorrect) included with the reports for the state of Iowa.

in WikiTree Tech by W Robertson G2G6 Pilot (122k points)
edited by W Robertson

1 Answer

+6 votes
WT does not control the location suggestions. You do not have to follow them, and can leave Iowa Territory, United States.

I believe those come from Familysearch and the suggestion to change it has to be made there.  Please someone correct me if it's from somewhere else...

See your other questions for the location table, I'm sure someone has already suggested the correct website.
by Rick Morley G2G6 Pilot (167k points)
Thank you. This is not about the list of locations from family search. This is about the location table which is my first link. This is something Ales maintains and which impacts wikitree+ searching.
sorry, if your original had mentioned WT+ I would have kept my mouth shut.

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