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Wrong displaying of german residences

Alexander Fitterer

November 28, 2012 16:23

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I will briefly report an improvement opportunity. It is by the "display of residence" in Germany - accompanied with the viewing of the tree in german language. This message is directed primarily to the administrators and softwaredevelopers, to improve.

I am working on a family tree for a small village, published between the years 1500 and 1900, starting with our family, by researching the local microfilmed churche reports. And I want to implement the display of the people in this tree as complete and correct as possible.

However, the choice of locations (birth, baptism, marriage, death...) is only possible under the current municipal divisions, not according to the local government of e.g.100 years ago. This representation is confusing and not the truth or reality. Isn't there a possibility to input and save place names as free text, without the automatic assignment of a place? Some small villages, today part of a town, were not found from the system. 

So as exampel someone was born 1770 in "Winkel, Gemeinde Rotenfels, Kreis Rastatt, Land Baden, Deutschland", the view of the automatic generated place name  is "Gaggenau, Karlsruhe, Germany". That would be nearly right - if the person wuold be born after 1970. But before 1970 "Rotenfels" and it's village part "Winkel" wasn't part of "Gaggenau". And then and now the displaying "Karslruhe" ist also wrong, it must be designated  "Rastatt". This shown information can confuse the researching genealogists and lead to wrong paths.

Thanks, Alex

http://www.geni.com/people/Alexander-Fitterer/6000000012243087033

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  Jeff, Geni Curator November 28, 2012 21:38

  Yes, you should see an option to "Edit Location Details" under any location box.  If you click that, you will get the manual entry fields that you are looking for.

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  Alexander Fitterer November 28, 2012 22:13

  Thank You. But I did so. And the entry gets automatically revised, if saving.

   

  Or what's the definition of the line at the top of the table for "place", called "Ortsname". I thought, according to the german translated Manual of geni, this must be the main name of the place and hereby the viewed place name. Instead, the entry of the second line gets displayed.

  See attached image. 

  
  
  
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  Alexander Fitterer November 28, 2012 22:23

  sorry wrong file attached. here the actual file. 

  
  
  
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  Jeff, Geni Curator November 29, 2012 00:20

  Ya, that should be the place, for example, the name of the church where someone was married or the name of the graveyard where someone resides.  So I wouldn't think this would auto-detect at all.  Try this, don't put anything in the auto-detect "Current Location" field, in fact, clear it.  Then click Enter Location Details and manually add each of the fields (continue to leave the auto-detect field blank), then save.