how does FamilySearch "Iowa Marriages 1809-1992" have the record of a 1565 marrige?

Question

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Carye-1 just had marriage info added, with a FamilySearch citation that includes "citing Chedzoy, England" but the citation is to "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"

Looking further, I see that collection is an index "based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City." (from this page)

So... is 1 Jul 1565 in Chedzoy, Somerset, England[1]

1. ↑ "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJWS-J9D : 3 December 2014), Henry Cogan and Elizabeth Carye, 01 Jul 1565; citing Chedzoy, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 1,003,855

from records in Chedzoy, England or culled (collected) from a submitted pedigree that cited "Chedzoy, England"?

Thanks!

Comments

Sounds like something that could be asked of familysearch.org through one of their several ways that they can be contacted.

I contacted them about the spelling of the first name of one of my great grandfather's. They corrected the spelling.

Answer 1

I checked on Ancestry, which has the original records, and it is correct, as to date and names. Though the C in Carye doesn't look like the C in Coggane, but I think that is just the way it is written, perhaps depending in which letter followed the C?

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Thanks John!

Answer 2

I've observed that Family Search seems to have attached the "Iowa" label  to a collection of records from the Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts) in the 1600s. I've not run across the name "Iowa" attached to records from England in the 1500s, but Liz's report sounds to me like it's essentially the same situation.

When I ran across a batch of misidentified Plymouth records, in a database attributed to FamilySearch, on the NEHGS website, I contacted NEHGS about it because my experience has been that they are efficient about fixing database errors when they are reported. Unfortunately, I've not had the same good experience with FamilySearch; when I wrote to them in April or May 2016 about an entire film from Norlolk, England, that I had seen on findmypast found to be labeled in the FamlySearch index with a completely different location in Norfolk, the reply told me they weren't interested in making corrections: "The indexed records [in the “England-EASy” collection] contain numerous errors.  In the future the original records will be available online and will possibly be indexed again, therefore we are not making corrections at this time." Last I looked, those records were still indexed incorrectly.

For me, the bottom line is that I don't trust FamilySearch index entries.

Answer 3

This particular film, 1003855, has a number of items on it, most of which are Iowa records, but there are other things as well that are not Iowa records. Apparently, the whole film was extracted/indexed, hence data from other regions.

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Yes.  Sometimes it seems like they had enough photographs of registers to fill half a microfilm reel, and somebody thought it would be a good idea to pad out the reel with user contribs.

Then later when they started transcribing, they couldn't cope with splitting mixed reels into separate batches.