Christine, Thanks for the feedback. I use a similar approach for locations in the U.S. when the facts occurred before the U.S. existed as a country. For example, for the early years of Pennsylvania I use: Place detail: Pennsylvania colony, British Colonial America (at the time) Place name: Pennsylvania, USA Description: [blank] It's rather contrived, but at least indicates the historical context of the fact in a way that's resolved by the Place Name Authority. Jim -------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Christine Benson" <christinebenson313@btinternet.com> Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Resolving place names (from the thread Programcrasheswhen resolving place names) Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:14:36 -0000 References: <001c01d067d7$ef0583d0$cd108b70$@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <001c01d067d7$ef0583d0$cd108b70$@gmail.com> Hi Jim, Thanks for the idea of dealing with the Gold Coast. I like it. Not perfect, but I think the best that is available. Christine

I'm continually confused with this obsession of resolving the place name. The PNA is a tool to help researchers enter the Place name in a uniform format but it only a tool. Its use not required or mandated. So why do these contrivances just to remove the flag. For a historical place whose name has been changed or no longer exists, why not simply enter the name as documented and then ignore the flag. You can ignore it in one of two ways: just pretend it isn't there (my preference) or click the ignore option telling FTM to discontinue displaying the unresolved flag (indicator). I'm sorry but it just seems like a lot of effort for no real purpose. BJ On 3/27/2015 7:30 PM, Jim Hoke via wrote: > Thanks for the feedback. I use a similar approach for locations in the U.S. > when the facts occurred before the U.S. existed as a country. For example, > for the early years of Pennsylvania I use: > > Place detail: Pennsylvania colony, British Colonial America (at the time) > > Place name: Pennsylvania, USA > > Description: [blank] > > > > It's rather contrived, but at least indicates the historical context of the > fact in a way that's resolved by the Place Name Authority.

Jim, I handle historical names differently AND I don't worry about the PNA. The Map is really close. I am more interested in the Grouping by the historical place names. I have a listing of when States became States. Place Name: Massachusetts Bay Colony nothing in Place Detail or Description I don't Ignore the unresolved place name, just don't worry about them in the UnResolved Place Names. What I don't want to see, in the Place Name on the screen is USA, prior to 1788 for Massachustts. Just another approach Russ  ___________________________ Mailto:rworthington@att.net From: Jim Hoke via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> To: FTM-TECH mailing list submission <FTM-TECH@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Resolving place names (from the thread Program crashes when resolving place names) Christine, Thanks for the feedback.  I use a similar approach for locations in the U.S. when the facts occurred before the U.S. existed as a country.  For example, for the early years of Pennsylvania I use: Place detail:  Pennsylvania colony, British Colonial America (at the time) Place name:  Pennsylvania, USA Description:  [blank]