I agree that we should be as clear as possible when entering data. We just can't tell what kind of pin heads will be around in 2113.
I am in the process of changing from FTM to TGM and have learned that if you are not careful thing can get scrambled up when transferring data. I currently break it down this way but am open for suggestions. Detail - name of Church/Cemetery or other important location City - Freguesia County - Concelho State - Island, Acores (i.e. Sao Miguel, Acores) Country - Portugal The real problem is dealing with the island. (or any other location that has more the 4 jurisdictions real or geographical) When I think about how many times on the Census it was written as people being from "Western Islands" or "Azores" or "Portugal". That really told you a lot. They may as well have said the Sea of Tranquility. I know FTM will allow a comma separated location in a data field. So you could have a string of information in one field. The problem is when you export data to another program. The information ends up there but is miss-labeled if you do not include everything. For example if you enter in FTM "150 Palm Street, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA" and export it to GMT the fields will come out like this. Address - Blank Detail - 150 Palm Street City - Attleboro County - Bristol State - Massachusetts Country - USA Another example is if you enter Attleboro, Massachusetts in FTM and export it to GTM it will come out. Address - Blank Detail - Blank City - Blank County -Blank State - Attleboro Country - Massachusetts I think you get the idea as far as problems in exporting data. These are not problems that are difficult to overcome and can be batch corrected getting them in the correct order in most cases. The biggest problem is if you added a note in FTM along with the location. For example if you entered in FTM a marriage location Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA and added in description Holy Ghost Church in Exporting to TMG the description would come up in a note. Once exported the only way to get the name of the church into the Detail box is to edit each instance individually which can be very time consuming depending on the number to do. Another thing I do not use abbreviations. AZ could mean Arizona or Azores. Names are another problem but that is another discussion. Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Spring, TX Formerly of Epping, New Hampshire Researching, Riberia Grande, Riberinha, Achada Grande, Bretanha, and Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Acores -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
