One thing that I sometimes do is put in my place name and don't select one of their standards. If theirs don't match, they don't get selected. Sometimes mine stick sometimes they don't, but if they don't, I go back and pull it out. If it isn't right, it isn't right. Not all techies are genealogists, more's the pity. Karen On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Steve Kelsey <[email protected]> wrote: > The standardized place names system needs lots and lots of work. I have > suggested a gazeteer for Danish names > which is at http://www.krabsen.dk/stednavnebase/ > but no one has listened as yet. In the Danish standardized place names > there are sometimes 4 choices for exactly the same place, there are 2 > places > with the same name in the same county which are not distiguished by the > herred name. In Copenhagen, it is very difficult for instance to get the > right church of many, many churches which you work very hard to get the > right one and then all you can put in is Copenhagen as standard unless you > really work at trying to find the place name. If Copenhagen for instand it > would be nice to have a complete list of the possible churches pop up so we > could choose the correct one. The system needs a lot of work to improve > these. > > Steve Kelsey > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to > [email protected] > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Finding ancestors is like eating potato chips--you can't stop with just one!