On 05-15-2011 17:03, Richard Smith wrote: > coded cultural norms. The example Ian Goddard quoted earlier about > places is particularly apt. For those of us not based in the US, > places simply don't fit into the neat city-county-state hierarchy that > the US has, and that a number of existing programs assume. In > England, parish-county is often a better hierarchy, but I'm not > advocating that either. What I want is the ability to say that in the > English branch of my family, a particular place name hierarchy should > be used, while, say, the German branch should use something > different. It may take longer to set up, but the result is more far > powerful. Many of us with good reason complain about inadequacies in GEDCOM, yet this is something GEDCOM addresses with the FORM tag. Is there even one program that does anything useful with this tag? In other words, you can say what you want to say in GEDCOM, but your program isn't listening. -- Wes Groleau There are two types of people in the world … http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1157