Talk:Sussex Census

Link to Hollington, Sussex is broken produces Lullington, Sussex results Ps1964 A large number of entries on this page are affected and produce Lullington, Sussex entries in the Family History Library Catalogue.

Paul, the whole template is unreliable and has not been fixed. I am working to correct the Sussex census links in parishes worked by the Sussex team this week all of which produce incorrect Family History Library Catalogue searches. The creator of the original template entries has introduced dozens of entries linked to a single place. With limited time the scale of the problem is beyond me, if the team add future lnks they need to create their own entry for the Catalogue which defeats the purpose of this page. Could the page be fixed to help contributors please? Ginnel Chichester parishes are being fixed all were broken

Repaired 25 links erroneously linked to "Bexhill" in order to correct link on a single page. Henry995 Letter A parishes need testing but appear to work now

Repaired all erroneous links to Hardham, Sussex which covers A-C, Crawley is incorrectly linked and so on. Please test links before use in pages Henry995

Repaired links for parishes E-K all linked to single parish Lullington, Sussex Sopsteele

With one or two confused links the page now seems to have lost the extensive links to 4-5 parishes; I have to work on a couple ( the Eastbourne links were incomplete). Please test all links if you are inserting the template into a parish; not quite how we intended to work this weekend!! I note an earlier request for the page to be fixed in the history went unheeded. Ginnel

CONFUSION IN FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY CATALOGUE AND WIKI

Due to the way in which the Family History Library Catalogue handles the following there is considerable confusion. The wiki pages are now clearly identified for:

East Dean, St Simon and St Jude, East Sussex

East Dean All Saints, West Sussex

West Dean All Saints, East Sussex

West Dean St Andrew, West Sussex

I have on behalf of the East and West Sussex contributors raised a case with support @amilysearch.org about the catalogue handling of records for the parishes. In terms of this wiki page, link to the catalogue is not useful at this stage due to the confusion and again the question of mixtures of all record types for parishes when the page purports to link to "Sussex Census" only arises. As contributors we find the handling of Catalogue entry is frequently problematic in the county. Crescunt 10:25, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

The response offered belatedly to the case raised by contributors fails to address this issue and the diversion in suggesting that feedback is offered to the Standard Finder appears particularly evasive. I feel that the fundamental here is a confusion about Sussex geography and muddled thinking about  setttlements, villages and civil and ecclesiastical parishes with similar names in the same county. Since the support response is clearly not going to act to take up the question of reorganisation of any catalogue entry revision  the catalogue will remain confused. As a contributor to this project I find it unacceptable that FamilySearch are prepared to ignore local contributors views in this way and am seriously questioning withdrawing as a result. On the one hand local contributions are being requested on the other a group of local people identify a problem (a series of problems) raise them and are told to go elsewhere. If this is the level of response on offer I do not wish to be associated with this project in future Chichgirl 04:46, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

I have offered a response reflecting the group consensus as volunteer contributors and to question why we are being asked to offer information in 4 distinct FamilySearch product areas using 4 "feedback" systems. It does appear that FamilySearch does not "own" problems they have willingly and as you say Helen it does raise the question of whether to continue to contribute time, effort and knowledge to an organisation which is so frustrating to work with. The repeated experience of so many component divisions within an organisation who do not take up a problem is almost Kafkaesque at times. As several expressed perhaps a long holiday from FamilySearch really is needed! Crescunt 08:38, 21 September 2011 (UTC)