{"id":7390,"date":"2018-08-12T19:33:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T19:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7390"},"modified":"2018-08-12T20:01:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T20:01:26","slug":"here-a-keokuk-there-a-keokuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7390","title":{"rendered":"Here a Keokuk, There a Keokuk Everywhere a Keokuk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It can be confusing when small political jurisdictions with the same name are contained within the same larger jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s apparently what caused the confusion with the index entry for this 1940 death certificate from the State of Iowa that appears on\u00a0<em>FamilySearch\u00a0<\/em>in their &#8220;Iowa, Death Records, 1921-1940.&#8221; George Sartorius died at Graham Hospital in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa. That hospital was also apparently located in Lee County&#8217;s Keokuk Township.<\/p>\n<p>And Lee County was not the only county with a Keokuk Township. Wapello County has one as well. That&#8217;s apparently how George Sartorius&#8217; place of death in\u00a0<em>FamilySearch<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Iowa, Death Records, 1921-1940&#8221; became located in Wapello County.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7391\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/george-sartorius.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"934\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/george-sartorius.jpg 934w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/george-sartorius-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/george-sartorius-768x425.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The error suggests that some of the data entry for this death certificate was automated. That does not really matter. The impact for the researcher is that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>searches based upon place of death (when performed exactly) won&#8217;t locate this record<\/li>\n<li>importing the database entry directly into a database\u00a0 (without correcting it) will result in an error based upon the transcription<\/li>\n<li>reading the original record is always an excellent idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unless your research is in a state that has no two places with the same name and has never had them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be confusing when small political jurisdictions with the same name are contained within the same larger jurisdiction. That&#8217;s apparently what caused the confusion with the index entry for this 1940 death certificate from the State of Iowa that appears on\u00a0FamilySearch\u00a0in their &#8220;Iowa, Death Records, 1921-1940.&#8221; George Sartorius died at Graham Hospital in Keokuk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}