John, And do you have Van Diemen's Land in your places? Colony of New South Wales instead of NSW, Australia? I'm of 2 minds what to do about these and vacillate from one method to the other; keeping the original Colony names or just converting all to post 1901 names. Rosemary On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:55 PM, John Donaldson <johndd@iinet.net.au> wrote: > It took me about a weekend to resolve them when I converted from FTM 16 to > FTM 2008. Of course you don't have to do it in one sitting, work through it > but be consistent in your database. > > I had used the slash delimiter correctly in FTM 16 and earlier (it goes > back > actually to version 7) so my Descriptions were not mixed up with my Places > when I converted. > > I was surprised how inconsistent my place names were and I found the > process > of cleaning them up very satisfying. > > "Melbourne, Victoria Australia" is different to "Melbourne" or "Melbourne > Australia" even although the place is physically the same. It is easy to > get > lazy when entering places, and of course if you use any web merging, etc, > then place names could be anything and may need attention. > > The replace function is priceless here > > And of course if you have your places consistent, the custom report/ export > filter works as it should.... an added bonus. > > I don't use any abbreviations in my place list preferring the full name. > Everyone in Australia would know where "Tassie" is but if you sent that > place to somewhere else it may not be recognized. (It is actually Tasmania, > Australia, an island State south of the Australian continent much beloved > by > the Brits as a penal settlement, but now a lovely holiday island) > > I also spell out all the USA states even although I know the abbreviations. > "WA" may mean Washington State to FTM, but here it is the state of Western > Australia. > > Paying attention to this detail makes FTM work as designed > > John D > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of John Okerson > Sent: Wednesday, 16 November 2011 11:34 AM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Place name list, FTM 2012 > > > I like BJ have all my Place names resolved so there are no tags when > scrolling the place list > > This has another priceless advantage > > > I am about 4,500 unresolved places from your status. My goal is to get > there, and I work on it diligently. I know that I could resolve ALL, but > that would be giving up, eh? > > > > ********************************** > 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 >

John, And do you have Van Diemen's Land in your places? Colony of New South Wales instead of NSW, Australia? No, but mainly because I don't have any events that occurred when they were the correct names. If I did I would likely use them and ignore the PNA. That is why I say that I don't use the PNA 100% of the time, there are valid exceptions. I do have a source for example, "Colony of Queensland" which is correct for the person involved, whereas later sources are "State of Queensland, birth, death, certificate etc I spell out New South Wales and do not use the common abbreviations NSW or N.S.W. The beauty of the PNA is that you can use it as little or as much as you want. Understand that and it all makes wonderful sense. Couple it with short place names and you have most bases covered John D

John, I spell out the full name of New South Wales. I have a number of people who became forcible citizens of Van Diemen's Land. Rosemary On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:31 PM, John Donaldson <johndd@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > > John, > > And do you have Van Diemen's Land in your places? Colony of New South Wales > instead of NSW, Australia? > > No, but mainly because I don't have any events that occurred when they were > the correct names. > > If I did I would likely use them and ignore the PNA. That is why I say that > I don't use the PNA 100% of the time, there are valid exceptions. > > I do have a source for example, "Colony of Queensland" which is correct for > the person involved, whereas later sources are "State of Queensland, birth, > death, certificate etc > > I spell out New South Wales and do not use the common abbreviations NSW or > N.S.W. > > The beauty of the PNA is that you can use it as little or as much as you > want. > > Understand that and it all makes wonderful sense. Couple it with short > place > names and you have most bases covered > > John D > > > > ********************************** > 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 >