Genealogy Chat

I have notified GR about this at least twice. The first time I told them was AT LEAST TWO YEARS AGO.

They have responded, said something would be done about it.

Try adding a relative born in Sydney New South Wales Australia.

The GR system automatically brings up SYDNEY WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

This is a BASIC!!!

About time it was corrected

Is Sydney the only one listed incorrectly?

just so long as you don't get

Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada

or

Sidney, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada


:-D :-D :-D :-D

I don't think the problem is necessarily of GR's making. It could be because another member has entered it this way previously and it has then been copied into the index, warts and all. If you report it to GR support through the usual channel they might be able to correct it.

I don't think so IGP. I have lots of names on my tree from the same places, and their birthplaces are not automatically churned out by GR.

My point is ....... I told them about this OVER TWO YEARS AGO

System "working as it should" ?

Can you describe exactly what it is you are doing when you say

"The GR system automatically brings up....."

Entering data, searching or what?

Put your complaint on the Suggestions board, which GR reputedly check

The automatic place name generation occurs when one adds a relative to one's GR tree.

Sydney, Steak and.

Wrong ...........its Kate n Sidney

add a new relative to tree

birthplace......Sydney.........

Try that, and you automatically get SYDNEY Western Australia

if you start typing Edinb....... it automatically brings up EDINBURGH Midlothian, and so on........

I do realise there are places named Sydney elsewhere in the world.

BUT!! Sydney in Australia is in NEW SOUTH WALES, NOT WESTERN AUSTRALIA

??
:-S

I understand your point Piglet, but can't figure out what it has to do with GR getting the location of Sydney wrong. As I said, the system did it automatically. Sydney is in New South Wales on the east, the GR system automatically came up with SYDNEY Western Australia.

And I do have a reasonable idea of the geographical layout of London.

Have you followed the advice to post this on Suggestions?

Reggie - I have notified GR about this by email - at least twice.

I'll give it a try, but do you really think it will make any difference? :-|

I guess Piglet Pals is talking about "North Woolwich", the latest London district to have been invented by estate agents. Oh those Chinese Laundry blues.

I have always found it odd for places such as Catford, Lewisham, Croydon and Bromley or to be described as "South London" or even Plumstead. Bri'un (glottal stop no "t" sound aka Brighton) and Sarfend (Southend-on-Sea) I suppose are fair enough. Even Margit.

In such places as St Johns Wood "Sarf Lunnun" is a terra incognita, lair of Arfer Daly, Jack Reegan and Dell Boy Trotter, a place where the tube don't go unless u fancy slumming it down Brixton way. It is not part of "the knowledge". Those without the ackers for Islington or a deal with Islington/Tower Hamlets housing dept. tend to opt for Clapham, esp the gridiron. It is def. part of south London as was discovered last summer...

True the post has little to do with Australian maps but judging by the number of Australians born in Sydney before 1600 according to many GRU and Ay trees Australian FH problems go well beyond drop down place names... or maybe it is just Australians but that can't be right 'cos so many can find Earls Court and anyway I have a lot of rellies there, esp in NSW & Victoria. GRU thinks Perth is nr Dundee but then it would.

In any case the geography of Greater London is more interesting and relevant to many more members. As PP has said GRU and Ay make an even bigger mess of London geography than for Australia (*) - it is fairly easy to realise that Sydney is quite a step from Perth, WA. OTOH Bromley by Bow and Bromley, Kent have a rather different look n feel...

"The East End regularly gets parts of South London chucked over the river.
And ALL of London south of the Thames is called South London, when there are 2 distinctive areas of South East and South West. [ only two ? ] No one would ever say that the East End is North London, but by using the geographical ignorance of tv etc., that is what they should call all of London north of the river"

// indeed "East Enders" is mostly filmed in Walthamstow. If they used the real east end there would be no beer and they'd need sub-titles.

as its a nice day lets all go out and

Lambeth you've never seen,
The skies ain't blue, the grass ain't green.
It hasn't got the Mayfair touch,
But that don't matter very much.
We play the Lambeth way,
Not like you but a bit more gay
And when we have a bit of fun
Oh, Boy.

Anytime you're Lambeth way
Any evening, any day,
You'll find us all doin' the Lambeth walk.

Ev'ry little Lambeth gal
With her little Lambeth pal,
You'll find 'em all doin' the Lambeth walk.

Ev'rything's free and easy,
Do as you darn well pleasey,
Why don't you make your way there,
Go there, stay there,

Once you get down Lambeth way,
Ev'ry evening, ev'ry day,
You'll find yourself doin' the Lambeth walk.

Anytime you're Lambeth way
Any evening, any day,
You'll find us all doin' the Lambeth walk.

Ev'ry little Lambeth gal
With her little Lambeth pal,
You'll find 'em all doin' the Lambeth walk.

Ev'rything's free and easy,
Do as you darn well pleasey,
Why don't you make your way there,
Go there, stay there,

Once you get down Lambeth way,
Ev'ry evening, ev'ry day,
You'll find yourself doin' the Lambeth walk.

Anytime you're Lambeth way
Any evening, any day,
You'll find us all doin' the Lambeth walk.

Ev'ry little Lambeth gal
With her little Lambeth pal,
You'll find 'em all doin' the Lambeth walk.

Ev'rything's free and easy,
Do as you darn well pleasey,
Why don't you make your way there,
Go there, stay there,

Once you get down Lambeth way,
Ev'ry evening, ev'ry day,
You'll find yourself
Doin' the Lambeth-
Doin' the Lambeth-
Doin' the Lambeth walk!

(*) Up until 1889 the only admin "London" for BMD purposes was the square mile of the city of London. Most of London north of the river was in "Middlesex" inc Westminster, Chelsea and Fulham. Some bits were in Hertfordshire eg Edmonton and others in Essex (East and West Ham, Ilford, Beckton etc). South of the river Woolwich, Plumstead, Milwall, Bromley were in Kent. Bermondsey, Lambeth, Southwark etc were in Surrey. That's why Surrey CCC HQ is at the Oval.

I just added a name to my tree.

This person died 1951 in SYDNEY NEW SOUTH WALES.

The GR system has not yet been fixed.

IT STILL DEFAULTS TO SYDNEY WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

I was assured back in April that this would be brought to the attention of the team and put right.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE A SIMPLE CHANGE???????

Oh, sorry, I forgot............. they're too busy working on other things, like the new tree, telling off people who have been RR'd etc

I have also sent an email to GR about this. AGAIN.

:-P

I mostly ignore the offered choices. I have a lot of rellies from Westmorland, which hasn't existed since 1974, and it's places have been redistributed elsewhere. But I know where they are, and don't care whether they are now in Cumbria or Lancashire.

At least they give you the same continent, unlike another well known website which frequently assumes the USA. :-|

lol - I had to find a list of the shortened codes for the USA. So many people just assume the rest of us know the US.

That reminds me - when I was first in the US (1986) I was compimented on my good English. Thought that a bit strange until I realised they thought I said Austria. Made a point of stressing the L after that.... which only helped a little bit. One woman said..... Australia, I've heard of that place, is it near Sydney? Yes, all around it.

But there's no excuse for the Sydney mixup on this site. I told GR about this at least two years ago.

When I worked, such a long time ago, there was a problem when the Post Office decided to change a district and make it into a town. We were told by our IT at the time that there was no way that the information could be changed in the system because that is how it was when it was bought .So for over ten years prior to my retirement the wrong postcode and the wrong town had to be entered.
The system gr bought in the beginning may well have come with these faults and they may not be in a position to do anything about it.-jl