Compacted today, and Yes, I resolve place names regularly. Apparently 1 unique place name per 4 individuals is about the right ratio. Would have thought it would be much higher. John & Kathleen -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Donaldson Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 5:43 PM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Place name list, FTM 2012 When did you last compact your database? Do you regularly resolve place names and do you merge like place names? John Donaldson -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Boyd Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 3:10 AM To: Ftm-Tech Subject: [FTM-TECH] Place name list, FTM 2012 Just noticed that my list of Place Names only shows a count of 4,645. I know this was over 25,000 a few days ago, and since I have over 16,000 individuals in my file, 4,500 can't be right. John & Kathleen ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html Online Support for Family Tree Maker Version 16 and earlier http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ Version 2008 - 2011 http://ftm.custhelp.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message