Re: [Gramps-users] Opinions on "how to" please.

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

2011/8/16 Michael C Tiernan <mic...@gm...>

> On the subject of place names, I figured I'd toss this out there.
>
> I'm being this verbose only 'cause I'm sure someone else is doing this sort
> of thing and could profit from the discussions.
>
> This is a long-winded way of doing this....
>
> I have some relatives who I know came from Massachusetts so I give them a
> place entry (i.e. #56) that says "Massachusetts, USA" and if I find that one
> of those people lived in Arlington, I create a new place entry, say #123,
> that reads as "Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA"
>
> This allows me to have an overall place name that covers a lot of area and
> another place name that covers a smaller area and yet another place name
> that covers an even smaller name all the way down to a street and maybe even
> a number on a street.
>
> Is this in keeping with how others do it?
>

I do like this. Most birth certificates say the parish/community, nothing
more, so logical to connect them all to same global place.

Note that the placecompletion tool can generate titles from given street,
city, ..., so you don't have to type the full description if the way the
placecompletion tool generates the title is good for you.

Benny


> Is there a major folly in doing it this way?
> Anyone got a better way of doing it?
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