User talk:Mltreece

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Thanks for participating in your virtual community.--Dquass 19:14, 8 April 2007 (MDT)

Family page titles

Hi. I added Mariah Cherry's name to the family page you created. Family page title need to include the husbands given and surname, the word "and" and the wife's given and maiden name, i.e. James Jones and Mary Smith. :) --sq 23:24, 10 April 2007 (MDT)

William Thrap [6 August 2019]

These are the changes I made to [[Person:William Thrapp (2)|William Thrap (2)]]:

1. I changed his surname from THRAP to Thrap. If all persons' surnames are written with only the first letter capitalized, no one stands out in a list of many people.

2. I changed "MD" and "OH" to "Maryland" and "Ohio". It is WeRelate policy to write out the names of American states in full, and to add United States afterward. But in your case, the birth happened before the United States became a nation in 1776. If you look at the edit page, you will see extended placenames with a pipe ("|") between the long version and the short one. The short one comes out on your page, but the longer one on the left goes to our database of placenames. Time (in this case, before and after the Revolution) should not cause duplications in the database, neither should abbreviations, mis-spellings, etc.

3. This is a continuation of the point above. Muskingum Township is in Muskingum County. We differentiate them by naming the township [[Place:Muskingum (township), Muskingum, Ohio, United States]] and the county [[Place:Muskingum, Ohio, United States]].

4. Our placename database does not include street addresses or farms in rural areas. Therefore, I moved "buried on his farm" from the Placename box to the "Description" box. That way it always shows up on William Thrap's page, but doesn't go into our placename database.

5. I just noticed this when previewing this message. Somewhere along the way the family surname has changed from Thrapp to Thrap. This shows up at the top left on the page. "Rename" is another choice in the left hand list. If you want to use it, go ahead.

I was able to check the differences by looking at the "History" entry immediately after "Edit" in the left hand list. You can do this for any person in the database. I found William Thrap because I have been doing work on the City of London, England, where I found his father who was contributed by someone else (discovered by checking the father's History). I hope you haven't found my changes over-precise, but you were able to link William Thrap to his father and you must have done that by checking databases.

All the best, --Goldenoldie 10:36, 6 August 2019 (UTC)