Fix These Place Errors Using Family Tree Maker and Watch Your Genealogy Software Work!

Clean up your Ancestry family tree quickly using the Family Tree Maker place cleaning tools.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction
00:28 Reviewing Bad Locations
01:39 Resolve Conflicts in Places
07:16 Fixing Places on Person Profiles
10:53 Ancestry or FamilySearch Standards

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[brucerider]

I’ve used this program for years and I had no idea this “fix” was sitting in front of me! I have over 5, 000 people in my tree; I’ve been slowly correcting or standardizing the place names in both programs. This will be a hug assistance! Thank you for sharing this information!

[janila]

I am a 25 year FTM user and when I first started, I was REALLY sloppy and today have tons of info that should be in the description fields actually listed in Place fields. I was trying to fix them one by one as I came across them but today, with just one report that you taught to me, I was able to move over 2000 records from Place to Description. Thank you!

[davidwilkes]

For Dublin, Leinster, Ireland ... historically, Ireland had/has 4 provinces (think USA States) which contain the 32 counties ... ignoring politics/borders, it is still the same ... so Dublin city is in Dublin county which is in Leinster province which is on the island of Ireland (Ireland nowadays consists of 2 countries, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).

[godisloveireland]

Yay something i can answer! Ireland is separated into 4 provinces: Ulster(north), Connacht(West), Munster(South and south west) and Leinster(East). Dublin is part of Leinster so that is accurate. There is Dublin city AND county Dublin

[carolholz]

Thanks so much for this tip...I’ve been wanting to do this for so long & was dreading it but this tip is sooo much quicker. 👏👏👏 Cheers from down under 👋

[cmccloskey]

So happy to have found your site!
About the Dublin, Leinster, Ireland question - Leinster is the PROVINCE (which contains multiple counties). I don't usually add the PROVINCE to Irish places. Instead, I use townland (basically a crossroads with multiple families), closest town, county, country.
Johnsfort, Swinford, Mayo, Ireland
If I can find a townland, I keep it! Sometimes historical records show the barony or civil parish, which mean different things and change over time. Townlands don't change.

[jeanmorgan]

Thanks Devon. I am working through my placenames and boy do I have a lot

[rebeccadavey]

Thanks for this advice - it's a quicker method to look just at the unresolved place names rather than the whole place list.

[zhubajie]

This brings up the question of if one uses the current place name or the place name at the time of the record. Sometimes villages or place names disappear and of course, borders move all the time or are created for various political divisions.

[debbiealexander]

This is great I ried doing this before manually and was somewhat sucesssfull. I never finsihed it so now I am encouraged to go back and do it with some of your suggestions as part of my cleanup.

[gregwilliams]

That <KY> in brackets denotes that Kentucky is a strong possibility and not sourced. This is a standard genealogy indentifer from the 1980's.

[prye]

This is great information. I need to do this, and seeing how to do many places at once is going to save lots of time! Thank you.

[jeromekasper]

When I am correcting a few places, double-click on the place name to avoid having to go to an individual profile. You immediately get the place name change diaglog.

[junebutka]

Thank you for the reminder of place corrections.

[PamsGrotto]

Looking at 6:43 mins in, the folder for 'Canada' has a tick, 'British Columbia' does not have a tick (greyed out) and 'Creston, Grand Forks and Vancouver' have ticks. Why is 'British Columbia' tick greyed out?

[suzannemcclendon]

I used to use Family Tree Maker. It was great, until it wasn't. A big glitch happened during a syncing and it totally wrecked my online tree. It had people married to themselves or to their parents/children, people in there multiple times, and some people no longer have genders, and a host of other issues. It will take me another 40 years to correct it all. I wish it hadn't happened, because it was an easy enough program to use. Now, I have Legacy, but I haven't had any time to learn all about it yet. I am not going to risk anymore syncing with my online trees.

Thanks for another great video!

[BrendaHebertLV]

I get frustrated with Townships. When I first started with FTM it allowed me to put in the Townships, an it recognized them as a place name. A few years back it dropped the "Township" designation, so now it wants to designate Sumner Township, Kankakee, Illinois, USA as Sumner, Kankakee, Illinois, USA. (That's an example.)

[yorkshirelass]

Just catching up with this - a great, informative video, thank you so much!
Just one question - if you opt to put the additional information in the "Description" field, would it overwrite any information that's already in the information field, or insert/append it to the beginning/end?

[gigantor]

When I was a member of the LDS they suggested that place names be listed as city, county, state. I'm seeing a lot of place names like Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA. Denver, Denver, CO, USA makes sense to me. Any thoughts?

[pinwheelgrl]

When modern location name vs ancient location name is different, programs always want to use modern, but it may have been in a different county back then or the town had a different name or maybe no longer is there or what if it was just a piece of giant territory before the states were made? Do you just pick the modern place and put the rest in notes?