Donna O, There is a group of us who are going to come up with some guidelines for data entry input.
You are using Family Tree Maker or Ancestry.com? I spoke with one of their representatives at Jamboree last month. He said that their places are very American-centric. And they really don't know what they are doing in certain places of the world. I think I called up Ribeirinha for the tech. The auto fill said "Ribeirinha, Azores, Portugal." I told the Ancestry guy that there at least 4 Ribeirinhas in the Azores, on 4 different islands. I told him that "Ribeirinha, Azores, Portugal" was about as precise as "Plymouth, United States" as there is a Plymouth in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Hampshire, California, etc, etc. I don't know if my suggestion will go very far, but at least I made them aware of it. For whatever it's worth, I type the fregusia, island, Azores, Portugal. I type the church only if there is more than 1 in that freguesia. However, my program is very precise about the places. I don't have just a place field. It is sub divided into Detail, City, County, State, etc. I could modify them to say Freguesia, Concelho, etc, but because I have my American lines currently merged with my Portuguese lines, I leave it alone. 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 azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
