Just to add my 1.5 cents (I am not quite up to two yet) when I enter information for my Azorean/Madeiran ancestors I use Freguesia, Concelho, Ilha, Azores/Madeira, Portugal. It may seem to be a lot, but it works for me. Paul G.
On Sunday, March 10, 2013 12:20:22 PM UTC-4, Cheri Mello wrote: > What do most of you people do for this? You are entering a birth, > baptism, marriage, death. It doesn't matter. Your screen opens up and > asks for the place where this event happened. My program has the following > fields: > Detail > City > County > State > Country > > Detail = the church, but I use it only if there is more than 1 church in > that freguesia (Sao Miguel Arcanjo & Sao Pedro are both in Vila Franca). > City = freguesia > County = I put the island there. I know it's closer to the concelho, but > before the CCA came online, the concelho didn't matter. I pulled the roll > of film for my freguesia. > State = I put Azores there > Country = Portugal > > I wouldn't too much work to put the county as the concelho and put the > state as Sao Miguel, Azores. But in sharing Gedcoms, we probably should > start to be consistent with each other. > > And I DO NOT abbreviate any more. Or not in the places (in my side notes > I abbreviate). SM? What's that? Santa Maria or Sao Miguel? F? Faial or > Flores?? You want your great-grandkids to inherit this and as adults they > pull it out and can't figure out your abbreviations? > > So how do all of you fill in your place fields? > > -- > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das > Tainhas, Achada -- -- 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.
