Please disambiguate the spelling of Eire and Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes bordering Canada and the US.

Question

An error report wants me to correct the place of death from "Lake Erie" to a far away land. A false error correction option isn't available.

Comments

Please tag this question for db_errors

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Just another thought...I have two 4x great uncles who drowned in Lake Ontario between Toronto and Toronto Island. My cousin Dave who manages their profiles used Toronto as the death location and explained the circumstances in the biography. If someone died at sea or in the middle of Lake Erie though, you could see that it would then be hard to connect that to the appropriate land location.

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Brett, Just an FYI, more than 2/3 of the area of Lake Erie in Ontario, Canada, only a small strip is in the USA

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I know...I really do live on the north shore of Lake Erie...In Ontario :)

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I live on the north coast of Ohio, but I do have relatives that live in Hamilton,  Ontario.

Answer 1

Though I would love to visit lovely green Eire, I want continue living here on the north shore of Lake Erie.

Comments

The city and county of Erie, Pennsylvania, also should not be marked as errors.

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City and county of Erie, Pennsylvania is not marked as an error, since only ending of location is being checked for spelling. If you saw that, give me the profile ID, so I can check.

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I didn't see that in errors. I was commenting just in case those were being marked as errors.

Answer 2

Perhaps it could be distinguished by calling it Lake Erie, New York since James was born in New York and buried in New York and part of the lake borders New York.  I do see that Ohio calls their area of the lake by the name of Lake Erie, Ohio.

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Thar does not help with the city in PA, which is "Erie", NOT "Lake Erie".

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If a person was lost somewhere in Lake Erie, chances are good that no one knows which jurisdiction they were in (could be either Canada or the United States, and if it was U.S., it could be Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, or New York).

Answer 3

I can add Lake Erie as an exception, but adding a country after it can help localize a location and remove the error. If location is in local waters, then add a country if you don't know add USA. Then we will all know in which country it is in.

Here are all instances of Lake Erie and it's misspellings.

Variation	Birth	Death	Marriage	Total
Lake Erie	8	40	1	49
lIke erie	0	1	0	1
lUke erie	0	1	0	1
laNe erie	0	6	0	6
lake erNe	1	0	0	1
lake rie	1	1	0	2

 

And here are all errors connected to Lake Erie. It is 16 (country spelling) errors. http://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTWebLocation/errors.htm?Location=lake+erie&MaxErrors=1000

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Being lost somewhere in Lake Erie is a bit like being lost somewhere in the Baltic Sea. The location is in somebody's territory, but there are several candidates for whose territory it might be.

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I just looked at the profiles on the above list and most not only have no changes listed but there are no errors in the profiles. The only ones that I do not know if they are errors or not are in the bottom two lines of the table. Using USA for a country name for all Lake Erie locations would be wrong more than it would be right because most of the lake is in Canada, Aside from that most of the errors on the list are not even for the lake but rather for county names or city names and there are at least 3 counties named Erie that I know about, 1 each in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and one in New York. I myself have several relatives that are not on WikiTree yet that live in the city of Erie located in Erie county Pennsylvania, United States.