Thanks, BJ, for the response and for the insight. Perhaps enhanced navigation from the People workspace to the Places workspace will be considered for the next major upgrade to FTM. Jim --------------------------------------------------- From: BJ <oldtrails@gmx.com> Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Resolving place names (from the thread Programcrashes when resolving place names) Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:17:29 -0600 References: <001c01d067d7$ef0583d0$cd108b70$@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <001c01d067d7$ef0583d0$cd108b70$@gmail.com> 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