It is interesting to note the Tombo site (http://tombo.pt/ ) has broken Location as:
Country: Portugal District/Region: Azores Ilhas: Sao Miguel Municipios: Ribeira Grande Freguesias: Ribeirinha If your genealogy program (Such as Family Tree Maker) uses one line Then on that line you would enter: Ribeirinha, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel, Acores, Portugal. If you wanted an address or name of a church then it would be added before the Freguesia: 9 Rua Mainos, Ribeirinha, Ribeira Grande, Sao Miguel, Acores, Portugal. This form of a location is in the reverse order of writing a mailing address in some countries where the lowest entity is written last. In genealogy programs that you enter locations by separate headings you may run into a problem the program may have only lines such as: Address, City, County, State, Country, This presents a problem in my case as to how to make it all fit. The solution I decided on was to combine The District/Region with the Ilhas. This way I enter: Sao Miguel, Azores in the State line. It is possible using my genealogy program (The Master Genealogist) to customize the location box and add in Island in the appropriate place. As I stated in an earlier message I never abbreviate I spell out locations. Most programs have Fast Fields that save work in spelling out full names. In my program I just hit "F-3" any number of times for the location. It is interesting the this Fast Field feature is carried to the sources which is very helpful when entering a source to a number of indiviuals. Rick Richard Francis Pimentel Spring, TX From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cheri Mello Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 4:39 PM To: Azores Genealogy Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] How to correctly list place of event Bernadette, There's going to be a group of us trying to come up with a consensus on how to list things. People can do how they please, though, but it would be nice to have something as a guideline. I only list the church if there is more than one in that village. Personally, I put "island" after the island. That just may be because there are so many Sao Miguel churches I just want to be sure that it's clear that I'm not talking about a church but Sao Miguel island. Sao Jorge (island vs. a church) would be another example. It only becomes a problem if something is amiss in a Gedcom transfer. I'm lazy and don't put Portugal. I also don't put that I was born in America either. It just stops at the state of California (which I need to quit abbreviating). Any other country though, I do enter. So really, I should be consistent and fill in the country field in my program on all entries. Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- For 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- For 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]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
