To get NFS to "take" a nonstandardized place name, simply hit the Escape button before it switches your submission over to their standardized place name. Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:10:57 -0700 From: Dan Taysom <[email protected]> Subject: [LDS-WC] How do I talk w/ people in Standardized Place Names? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]om> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, I've been going round & round with the Help folks and we don't seem to be communicating. Can anyone tell me how to talk with the folks managing the Standardized Place Names? Issue: Arbie LeRoy Brooks (1889-1951) LHNR-VY5 Born in Big Creek, Monroe, Wisconsin The birth-place shows correctly in details as being in Big Creek, Monroe, Wisconsin (with some minor variations as to be expected with multiple submissions), however, if one looks at the map display for him or his father it shows Arbie's birth is in Big Creek, Monroe, Tennessee, NOT the Wisconsin location. Also if one does a duplicate search, it auto-populates the fields for the search with the (wrong) location in Tennessee. It appears that the Standardized Place Names system is firmly convinced that the ONLY place in the world that can possibly be Big Creek, Monroe County is a place of that name in Tennessee, REGARDLESS of what state is listed in the details. I tried truncating the place in Standard Locations by leaving off Big Creek and stopping at Monroe County, Wisconsin. If that instance is selected for the summary, then it partially solves the problem at the expense of being less precise. At least in the the search for duplicates it has the right state, but the Map pin is still in Tennessee because of the other entries with Big Creek in them. p.s. At Help's suggestion I deleted my previous (correct location) and added a new opinion with the same info. Didn't fix the problem. Any ideas on how to get the complete place name in the system and have it recognized as being in the right state? Or how to discuss the problem with the folks running the Standardized place names? I imagine my situation is not unique and that there are other instances of the same type of thing happenning with other localities. thanks, -- Dan Taysom [email protected] __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 6960 (20120312) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com