If you're using the street address as the description, a better way to approach it would be to include the street address in the location field. The resulting location can be resolved in the Place Name Authority, if you are using that. If you need instructions on how to do that, let us know. Judy in Ocala On Feb 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Desmond McDowell via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> wrote: Question to do with Individual facts E.g.: Individual Fact Date Place/ Description Census 31 March 1901 Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland; 62 High Street Would it not be better to have the Description come first or is there another reason why FTM would do it this way, please advise Thanks Desmond ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- 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

sorry, Correct URL http://ftmuser.blogspot.com/search/label/HistoricalPlaces Russ ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net ________________________________ From: Judy in Ocala via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: Desmond McDowell <desmond.mcdowell@rogers.com>; "ftm-tech@rootsweb.com" <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Place/Description FTM 2012 If you're using the street address as the description, a better way to approach it would be to include the street address in the location field. The resulting location can be resolved in the Place Name Authority, if you are using that. If you need instructions on how to do that, let us know. Judy in Ocala On Feb 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Desmond McDowell via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> wrote: Question to do with Individual facts E.g.: Individual Fact Date Place/ Description Census 31 March 1901 Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland; 62 High Street Would it not be better to have the Description come first or is there another reason why FTM would do it this way, please advise Thanks Desmond ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- 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 ********************************** List information page http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html ------------------------------- 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

If you start putting street names, etc in the field you are talking about, you will end up with multiple entries for the same place, because each time you enter a new street address etc it makes it a new place. Hope you can understand this ... little hard to explain what I mean. Mary Ellis If you're using the street address as the description, a better way to approach it would be to include the street address in the location field. The resulting location can be resolved in the Place Name Authority, if you are using that. If you need instructions on how to do that, let us know. Judy in Ocala On Feb 23, 2015, at 10:00 AM, Desmond McDowell via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> wrote: Question to do with Individual facts E.g.: Individual Fact Date Place/ Description Census 31 March 1901 Dumfries, Dumfries-shire, Scotland; 62 High Street Would it not be better to have the Description come first or is there another reason why FTM would do it this way, please advise Thanks Desmon -- If you don't know your family history, you are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ~ Michael Crichton ~ Mary W. Ellis http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncacgs/