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Place of Birth entry field still hosed (since forever)

Yair Sageev

July 08, 2013 18:50

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In the place of birth entry field of a person's profile, type in a name.  Two things happen:

1. The autocomplete doesn't work

2. The data entered doesn't save.

 

It has been this way, off and on, since time immemorial.

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  Bjørn P. Brox July 08, 2013 18:56

  The simple text field depends on Google Map's records on the place you are looking for,

  Just click Location Details and fill in the fields manually because Google Map would never return historical names which most profiles would contain.

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  Yair Sageev July 08, 2013 19:06

  Thanks Bjorn,

  I am aware that I can fill in the fields manually by expanding the details, and that this saves.  But shouldn't the default behavior be to save whatever I enter in the main field?  This really is a pain when I copy and paste birth location info from records.

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  Yair Sageev July 08, 2013 19:09

  Also, the autocomplete doesn't work even with modern, well-known places.  It simply doesn't even try to autocomplete most  of the time.

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  Charles Lovelace, Jr. March 14, 2018 00:04

  My problem is similar. I enter Utah Territory or any number of versions of Utah in 1850 and GENI changes the place to United States or another erroneous place. hint: Utah wasn't a state in 1850 rewriting history doesn't clarify the past.