Click on the Places tab. In the top left, just above the list of places, you will see a button Resolve All. When you click on that, you get a list (and count) of flagged place names. Each listed place name, has several options. Do Nothing, Agree to replace it with a suggested place name, Move it to Descriptions, Ignore the question and Remove the flag as a suspect place name, or Search alternative place names to replace the one currently used. BTW, this gives you an option to scan lots of the flagged places and quickly replace them with a straight forward acceptable name. For Example, Replace Kentucky with Kentucky, USA. John & Kathleen -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Okerson Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:55 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] using the Place Name Authority within FTM 2012, or earlier versions > BTW, my file currently has 25,000+ Place Names that are flagged, so I > am working with them a few at a time. Are you saying that you have some way of ascertaining just how many of your Place Names have the FLAG mark - OR - are you saying you have 25,000 place names? I can see where to count that Place names, and am down to 20,0XX. I would like to know just how many of those are flagged though. Is there a secret to knowing?

> Click on the Places tab. In the top left, just above the list of places, you will see a button Resolve All. When you click on that, you get a list (and count) of flagged place names. Each listed place name, has several options. Do Nothing, Agree to replace it with a suggested place name, Move it to Descriptions, Ignore the question and Remove the flag as a suspect place name, or Search alternative place names to replace the one currently used. BTW, this gives you an option to scan lots of the flagged places and quickly replace them with a straight forward acceptable name. For Example, Replace Kentucky with Kentucky, USA. Several good tips here! So, of my 19,975 places, 9,9XX are flagged. I thought I had done a better job than that, but not so - at least not yet!