Toby Turner wrote: > In the U. S., I always enter counties (same as in Great Britain) > for the same reason. I may not always be crazy about how it reads, > but it saves me a lot of time when researching/visiting/or > demonstrating ancestral location spread. Toby, If you want, you can have the county in the SS place index but omit it from the person page entry (narrative). Enter the county as a single-excluded value as shown on the SS help page here: http://ss.johncardinal.com/placeindex.htm#fieldexclusion The main purpose of the Show Excluded Place Data property of the SS Place Index is to allow the index to include counties while the narrative may or may not. As Terry Reigel described, you can also control what appears in the person page entry by customizing the sentence for an event to include only selected place levels, i.e., rather than always using [L], use variables for the individual parts [L3], [L5], etc. Lastly, you can use the SS "Full, then Short" feature to show the full place on the first reference in a person page entry, but the short place for all subsequent references in the same person page entry. Full, then Short only works with a single TMG place record, and so the results are affected by how you record places. Using those features in some combination may help you improve the flow of the person page entry narrative without sacrificing the utility of the SS place index. John