List of places (SL)

The List of Places allows you to edit all the places in a genealogy, geolocalize them, merge them, and verify that they have been entered correctly and organized in a consistent manner.

All the places found in the genealogy are listed, with their geographical coordinates.

For each of them, it is possible to see the events that occurred there.

The sorting of the list can be modified, as well as the display format.

It is also possible to merge places that should be identical, and to define or correct the geographical coordinates of those that are wrongly positioned.

 

Description

The List of Places is a two-level tree list:

1. Places
2. The events that occurred there

The event level can be unfolded or folded by clicking on the flap :

Places

Each place line displays the following characteristics:

• An icon whose color indicates if it could be located by Ancestris
• His name
• In square brackets, its geographical coordinates
• In brackets, the number of events that occurred there

The different lines of places are classified in alphabetical order.

Green place icons

A green place icon indicates a place that seems to be suitable. In this case, the coordinates can be displayed in blue or black.

• Coordinates displayed in blue (example: [N40,0 W75,3]) means that Ancestris found the coordinates of this place on the Internet.
• Coordinates displayed in black (example: [N53,2 W1,6]) mean that Ancestris found the coordinates of this place in the Gedcom file, and it is probably you who put them there.

However, it can happen that some places are badly positioned, despite the presence of the green icon. To remedy this, see paragraph below A "green" location is incorrectly positioned.

Red place icons

A red place icon indicates a place whose coordinates Ancestris did not find.

In this case, the coordinates are always displayed in red (example: [N45,0 W4,0]).

To remedy this, see the paragraph below: Intervention on red locations

Events

Each event line displays its characteristics :

• The type of event in the form of its symbol (birth, wedding, profession, etc.)
• The type of event in any letter
• The name of the individual involved in the event, followed by his or her ID number in brackets (Ixxxxx). If the event concerns a family (marriage, contract, divorce...), the line displays the name and ID number of each of the two members of this family, as well as the ID number of this family (Fxxxxx).

The different event lines are sorted alphabetically by the name of the event and the name of the individual.

Usage

The List of Locations covers several needs, which are as follows, from the most frequent to the least frequent :

• Search for a place in the list, directly by typing on the keyboard the place to be searched.
• Acting on locations to modify them, from a right click on a place in the list.
• Act on an event of a place, from a right click on an event in the location.
• Search for the coordinates of all locations. This is done at the first launch of the list of places for a genealogy, and then from the geographical view.

Search for a place in the list

The search for a location is done by first selecting an item from the list and then typing the first letters of the jurisdiction you are looking for.

• A search window opens at the bottom left of the list.
• The selected location line moves in the list on the first occurrence of the entered string.

You see above the first letters of "New York" that were entered, the search field appeared in the lower left corner, and the New Haven location line was highlighted.

In order for the search field to appear, any location line must first be selected.

 

Act on site to modify them

The Place List allows the use of a context menu, available by right-clicking on a place line.

The following menu then appears, identical whatever the location. Here, if you right-click on Hyannis Port:

The following describes each of the actions in this context menu.

Show the location of this place on the map

This action activates the Map View and shows the location of the place on the map:

The same result would have been obtained by double-clicking directly on the Hyannis Port location in the list.

For more details on its use of the map, see the page dedicated to the Geographic Map.

Detail on this place searched on the Internet

This action displays various information that can be used to complete or correct the data entered from the editor:

C'est en particulier l'un des moyens pour identifier les codes INSEE des communes.

Edit this place

This action allows you to edit the location.

It is generally through there that you will pass to "repair" your premises, i.e.

• Repositioning places that are poorly or not accurately enough placed,
• find the ones that were not found (the places with red icon).

Clicking on this action opens the next window for editing a location.

Note that when this editor is called from the list of places, it allows you to edit all places with the same name and coordinates.

For more details on how to use it, see the Place Editor page.

Copy this place to replace it afterwards on another one

The interest of this action is to merge two places.

The action allows you to copy the full name with its coordinates of a first selected location to the clipboard, which will then allow you to paste it on another location using the command below.

The first place is the one you wish to keep. Copy the first one into the second one to overwrite it with the first one.

For example, I copy here the Jefferson place, which contains the event residence of Rosemary Kennedy:

Replace this place by the one previously copied

This command is the counterpart of the previous one to merge two places.

The place from which this second action is performed will be deleted.

At the time of this action, this place disappears from the list and the events that were attached to it are placed under the first place next to the events that were already there.

In the following example, if I replace the place Hyannis Port with what I have just copied: 

I then find the following list of places, where Hyannis Port disappeared, and Jefferson contains 4 events resulting from the merging of the two places:

Refresh the list of places

This action forces the reclassification of the list and associated events.

In principle, modifying a location updates the list immediately, but it may be necessary to force this refresh.

Changing the display format of locations

This action allows you to customize the way the places are displayed in the list and therefore to sort them differently.

Refer to the Customization paragraph below.

 

Acting on an event of a place

After unfolding the list of events of a location, you right-click on an event and the event story menu below appears.

The following describes the actions in this menu.

Select this event

This action, also accessible by double-clicking, allows you to select the individual in all Ancestris views.

Edit this event in the Default Editor

This action opens the default editor, here it is Cygnus on the example, in order to make changes in the entity (individual or family) associated with the selected event.

You can change the default editor in the Preferences. The name in the context menu of the event will then have changed.

 

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