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Place Portal

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.

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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.
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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