It is important to decide how you will format foreign country Place names now. They can’t wait a while. You are familiar with UK place names and so it is the foreign ones that cause the issues. If

I have used the GRO plugin quite a lot It is great but on FreeBMD after 1983 it doesn't list the quarters. Is there an option on GRO just to show the year he event took place As things are I always

Brilliant Mike, Also thanks to everyone for their advice. I will do as you say, Mike, and take it a step at a time. Country first, starting with England, then Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

A further advantage of the reverse display is that you don't have to worry about how many levels there are in a place. Of course you must be consistent in the parish, town, county, country order. It

One trick that Simon himself showed me a few months ago when talking about this issue was to use the “reverse display order” box at the bottom of the list of button This sort the screen in the

No, as advised by Adrian, don’t add Addresses to Places yet. First, add the Country to all Places where that is missing. Use the Tools > Work with Data > Places… dialogue. That has columns

Kristeen, I'm in agreement with Adrian on this. The first step is to tidy up the Place records by making sure they all have a country included, and that they all have the same number of comma

Ok Mike, got that message loud and clear. :) Can I have your opinion on my going into every entry and adding the address to the place ensuring I have the correct number of columns and/or commas,

DO NOT USE the ‘Find and Replace’ command to modify Place fields. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. I have lost count of how many time I have given that warning. Don’t come asking me to fix the resulting

Kristeen, Forgive me but I'm a touch concerned about what you want / need to do. The Plug-in won't help at all with updating your "Norfolk" to "Norfolk, England" (or even "Norfolk, Virginia, USA") In

I adopted a strategy of only using places, but some others choose to use both place and address. An example of how I do a Place is , 2 Claytons Cottages, Arkley, Barnet,

Thanks for the hint David. I have started some Find and replace but I’m finding it hard to “see” how I really want the combined place name to look. Kristeen Kristeen Simpkin

Hi I have just worked out how to do this. Please ignore. Regards David Hodgson-Brown

Hi I am migrating from RootsMagic and have lots of Christening Facts. I would like to add them to the main part of the property box, but all I can add is a Baptism. Can I change this in any way?

Just a thought, have you tried using the Find and Replace option under the Edit menu, you can limit changes to just Places, or Addresses as you wish. I have successfully used this many times

Thanks for that Victor, When I started FH the vast majority of the family was based in Norfolk, and I thought “I know where Norfolk is”. As time went on I found “foreigners”, and thought I

You say 'sometimes' added country. You should always add country. When it comes to Yorkshire always add East, North, West and (these days) South. There are similar named places in each part

Hi Mike, thanks for the prompt response. I have most place names as “parish, City, County “ sometimes I’ve added “Country”. In address it can be “Name of building/street number, street

Hi Kristeen, It would be helpful if you could identify the plugin and exactly what you want to reassign. I presume you are talking about the ‘Rearrange Address and Place Parts’ plugin. Have you

Hi Mike, I have accessed the Plug In to reassign my addresses to Place Names but have absolutely no idea how to use it. I clicked on the Input Filter Tab, and then had no idea what to do