Sorry I didn't respond earlier. See comments interspersed below. BJ On 3/26/2015 9:17 AM, Jim Hoke via wrote: > 3. One pet peeve I have with the PNA is that it uses a 4-tier > jurisdictional hierarchy instead of a 5-tier one. Frequently there are > villages/towns in the PNA that are in townships in the PNA. One option for > handling this situation is to use the village/town as the fourth tier level, > thereby taking township out of the hierarchy for that entry. An alternative > is to use township as the fourth tier level, indicating the village/town > under Place detail. This can be undesirable because the village/town then > cannot have any locations placed under it in the FTM/PNA representation of > the hierarchy. Thus, neither option is very satisfying. I understand your view point. The problem as I see it is that many states do not use the township model. Consequently, if they implemented the 5 tier approach you suggest, everyone would have to account for the township even if it were not applicable. To do that would probably mean entering double commas between the town and county so the program would be able to format the name properly. > 4. My question involves FTM 2014 navigation. In the People workspace under > the Person tab, how can one easily get to a map showing the location of a > place-related fact? In FTM 2014 it is easy to go from the Places workspace > (showing the geographic location of a place on a map) to the facts > associated with that place under the People workspace. Unless I've > overlooked something, going the opposite direction is not nearly as easy. You are correct and that has been one of my pet peeves with FTM since the rewrite. I'm not sure why they did it this way but it would certainly be much more user friendly if the user could say double click on the Place name in the Tree/Person information panel and that would transfer the focus to the Places work area. > Jim Hoke > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 11 > Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:42:48 -0600 > From: BJ <oldtrails@gmx.com> > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Program crashes when resolving place names > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <55120488.2060202@gmx.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > ... > I understand the desire to incorporate the house number and street > address into the Place name; however, you need to understand - that will > create a unique entry for each house number and street in your list of > Place names. Personally, I think creates too many unique place names > with very little benefit. I normally want the place names to reflect a > group. Therefore, I will enter the Cemetery name along with the place > name. In most instances, I will have multiple facts associated with a > given cemetery. If you do not use the hierarchical listing, you will > wind up with one listing for every house number street combination. > Even if you use the hierarchical listing, the place names will be > grouped under the Country name, State name, County name, City name with > one entry for each house number street address combination. Again that > tends to be too many for me to browse through efficiently. So I tend to > enter the house number street address in the fact Description field. > This keeps my place names to a more manageable list making it easier to > use Fast Find in the Place Names. > ... > Hope this helps. > BJ > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:28:55 -0600 > From: BJ <oldtrails@gmx.com> > Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Program crashes when resolving place names > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <55132897.30001@gmx.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > .. >> What do you do with the place Gold Coast, West Africa? I know it is now >> Ghana but it wasn't at the time. > I would probably handle it this way as I prefer to preserve the original > data as much as possible. I would enter the Place name, "Gold Coast, > West Africa" and leave it as unresolved. The "unresolved" indicator is > simply an advisory flag which brings it to your attention. It doesn't > mean the information is incorrect but simply alerts you the the fact it > is not in the Place Name Authority data base. Alternately, if you want > to get rid of the "unresolved" indicator, you can elect to ignore the > alert. > > > ********************************** > 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 >