Information in Place Field [29 September 2015]
You may find it helpful to remove extra data from the Place Field and instead put it in the "Description" field to the right of the Place field.
Place details such as church name, hospital, physical address, etc
Additional details about the event
These are suggestions about uploading Gedcoms that explains the guidelines for Locations.
3. Clean up place names. The uploader will try to match your places with the "official" names, but you can make things easier on it by making them as clean as possible. Merging places that aren't matched automatically by hand is optional, but if you don't, your places will have "red links" that go nowhere, and you won't be able to display your events on maps.
Places must be entered as small to large -- i.e. "City, County, State" NOT "State, County, City".
Make sure there are commas between each level of jurisdiction. Spaces are nice (the lack of them affects formatting), but not required if there are commas.
Use official place names where possible. Inland bodies of water and specific locations like churches and hospitals do not have place pages, so put those in the event notes. Same goes for things like cause of death, occupation, etc. Many cemeteries do have pages, so you can leave cemetery names in burial place fields. For international waters, use the place "At Sea" and put the details in the event notes.
For United States jurisdictions, you need only the state, not the country. The county name helps distinguish between multiple towns with the same name in the state (of which there are many), but the system will otherwise match town names without them. The word "County" is unnecessary.
For other countries, spell out the country name.
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--RWMeyer 14:25, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
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