Suggestion 579 FindAGrave - Missing birth location

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Description of Error - 579: FindAGrave - Missing birth location

This WikiTree profile has a no birth location but FindAGrave has one.

To read more on Find A Grave, see Help:Find A Grave.

Content of info column: Birth location used at Find A Grave

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Possible Causes

No birth location entered in Wikitree

Action Steps

There are few possible actions:

• Wrong link to FindAGrave. It is possible, that wrong FindAGrave memorial was matched to this wikiprofile. In such case, you can add a link to the correct FindAGrave memorial if it exists. If it doesn't set status to False error.
• Error in FindAGrave. Mark error as false error.
• Error in wikitree. Enter birth location in wikitree and error should be gone on monday. FindAGrave gives you the possible birth location but try to find other sources. If Find A Grave has a gravestone picture then that could be a source for a birth location. If no picture of a gravestone exists on FindAGrave, you can request it there. How to request a grave picture at FindAGrave

Error Status

For each Error you can set status. You can set it as Corrected, Not corrected, False Error, Proposed merge or just add a Comment.

If there are related errors for the profile, you will also see them on status page.

Full description is available on Status Help Page.

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Technical Stuff

All identified links to FindAGrave are compared to profile data. Link is identified by extracting memorial number from link, template or text Memorial #

Comparison is done by following rules:

• If name is exactly the same, it is considered a match.
• If it is a small difference, dates are also compared and if they are the same within 1 year, it is considered a match.
• If it is a medium difference, dates are also compared and if they are exactly the same, it is considered a match.
• If none of the conditions apply it is considered not identified.

All profiles where profile matches memorial on FindAGrave are checked for missing birth location. This is checked only if there is a birth location entered on FindAGrave.

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