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Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Gross Kuskow, Prussia, Gemany

label: Koszewo, West Pomeranian Voivodeship | description: village in West Pomeranian, Poland | matchedVia: alias | matchedText: Groß Küssow | coordinates: 53.26944444, 14.90777778

Wikidata Q2378294 fetched this session via lookup_place; alias match on the row's own German name.

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Bismarck, South Australia, Australia

Modern place Brooklyn Park, South Australia, Australia (id 22600) is geocoded -34.9289/138.5439 (manual, Q4974883); this row (Bismarck, SA, historical, modernPlaceId already 22600) still held the German battleship Bismarck's Atlantic wreck coordinates (48.1667/-16.2, ex-Q150857) in its own geocode block.

Completing a half-applied fix: the row was already correctly linked to its modern place but the row's own lat/lon and wikipediaUrl had not been cleared/reset to match.

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Lowood, Townshend, Queensland, Australia

Row already correctly, manually geocoded (-27.4667/152.5833, real Lowood, Somerset Region, QLD).

Parent 'Townshend, Queensland, Australia' (#2148) has this as its only child and its own pin sits ~600km away (Townshend Island, coastal central QLD); reparenting directly onto Queensland (19).

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Berginsin

Person #44206's own record: mother's BIRT recorded at 'Berginsin' (placeId 7796); her children's BIRT events read 'Bergensin, Pomerania, Prussia' (10 JUL 1871 August Nitz; 1876 Johanna Albertina Nitz), modernPlaceName Bargędzino, Poland.

Letter-transposed misspelling of the same Pomeranian village within one family's own records, read from get_person(44206) this session. #7798 (Bargędzino target) carries a Meyers-1912 citation and Wikidata Q2327623.

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Questionable

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For Toronto South, Robertson, New South Wales, Australia

search_places('Toronto') returns 7 rows; #1519 'Toronto, New South Wales, Australia' is the current, correctly-geocoded (-33/151.6) row, and no separate 'Toronto South' gazetteer entity exists.

Row recorded as 'Toronto South, Robertson, New South Wales, Australia'; linked within Toronto, NSW (#1519).

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Cundah, Victoria, Australia

Wikidata Q5159135 "Condah" - locality in Victoria, Australia; coordinate -37.9667/141.733.

Row's own spelling 'Cundah' (as recorded) kept; Condah, Victoria is the real locality it names. Direct confirmation the person's event happened there specifically (rather than nearby) is not independently established.

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Questionable

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For Kings Belt Nr Greenock

lookup_place('Kings Belt') and lookup_place('Kings Belt, South Australia'): no Wikidata or OpenStreetMap/Nominatim match.

A documented absence, not a positive identification - the 'within Greenock' link rests on family context (see place.update note), not a gazetteer hit, so this citation is recorded at quality 1 (questionable).

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Green Hill, Queensland, Australia

Wikidata Q31003454 / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Hill,_Queensland - Queensland locality.

Row's name, coordinates (-17.023/145.8333) and Wikidata identity are already correct for the Queensland locality; only parentPlaceId still resolved to South Australia (a stale leftover).

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Neugolz, West Prussia, Germany

label: Golce, West Pomeranian Voivodeship | description: village in West Pomeranian, Poland | matchedVia: label | coordinates: 53.37083333, 16.42777778

Wikidata Q5578467 fetched this session via lookup_place; disambiguated from three other same-named Polish villages by voivodeship.

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Primary

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For Upper Canada

Wikidata Q795427 (Upper Canada): crown colony, inception 1791, dissolved 1841, replaced by Canada West (Q14923076).

The row was flagged status 'current' for a polity dissolved in 1841. Its 44, -80 coordinates are Wikidata's own for the colony and are left unchanged. NOTE: place 11258 carries the same qid and coordinates and is a duplicate of this row; no merge proposed.

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For Grenville, Ontario, Canada

Wikidata Q5607516 (Grenville County, former county in Ontario): coordinate 44.8333,-75.6667.

Matches the tree's existing sibling row #1274 'Edwardsburgh, Grenville County, Ontario, Canada' (44.8408106,-75.5392783), ~25km away. Stored coordinate 49.1001,-86.0499 (near Lake Superior) was unrelated.

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For Mooball near Murwillumbah New South Wales, Australia

Wikidata Q31400845: town in New South Wales, Australia; lists 'Mooball, New South Wales, Australia' as an alternate name; P625 -28.437222222/153.503888889.

Row recorded as 'Mooball near Murwillumbah New South Wales, Australia'. A pre-existing oddity in the row's own parent chain (no NSW node) is unrelated to this fix and not worsened by it.

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia

Wikidata Q1074005 'Division of Macquarie': Australian federal electoral division, P625 -33.475/150.642.

Row's Nominatim pin (-29.49/150.11, far north-west NSW) did not match its only child, Londonderry (#901, western Sydney). No other live row is named 'Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia', so this is a direct recolour, not a disguised merge.

Wikidata and OpenStreetMap/Nominatim gazetteer lookups Secondary

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For Mount Sylvia

Existing tree row #439 'Mount Sylvia, Queensland, Australia': -27.7333,152.2167, wikidataQid Q31107623.

#9525 carried wikidataQid Q707720 = Xueshan, a mountain in Taiwan (namesake collision on the leaf name 'Mount Sylvia'/'Sylvia Peak' style matching). #439 is the tree's own already-correct row for the real Mount Sylvia, Queensland, carrying the right QID.

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For Holstein

{"name":"Holstein, Germany","lat":53.8867453,"lon":9.9640088,"countryCode":"DE","adminLevel":"region"}

lookup_place q=Holstein, Germany, fetched this session (geo tier).