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WeRelate contains about 990,000 current and historical places. Each place has a wiki page, where you can find out and contribute information about that location. The page also contains preferred and alternate names, alternate jurisdictions - both current and historical, latitude and longitude (for displaying on maps), municipalities that are contained within this place, other places that are related, a map of the area, and an area for textual comments such as historical information and research tips.
Primary Portals
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Things To Do
Titling Conventions for Place Pages
A Place page title should follow the convention:
- List each part of the place from lowest to highest jurisdiction: town/city, county/district, state/province, country. Omit the province for the UK and other countries where it's common to list the county directly under the country. Omit county/district in countries where it is rarely used. Information how places are organized for each country can be found on the country's homepage.
- Don't abbreviate, and include the name of the country even if the country is United States.
- The United States generally uses a 4-level jurisdictional hierarchy: town, county, state, country. Other countries may use a 3-level or even a 5-level hierarchy. See the country homepage for more information.
- Places in European countries are generally listed according to the jurisdictional hierarchy that was in place around 1900. Again, see the country homepage for specifics.
- Cemeteries are entered as places in WeRelate. The titling convention is Cemetery Name, City/Town, County, State, Country.
See the following pages for more information regarding place names:
Help Files & FAQ's
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Featured Place Page
Helping Out
There are various Place Page cleanup projects underway. You can join the conversation on the projects below, or propose your own cleanup project!
Sample Place Page
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