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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Places - a TMG wishlist item for v.6
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 14:32:57 -0600
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In-Reply-To: <KBEEJNHPFAMCGLNKDFEFOEIMHCAA.richard@damon.name>


At 02:43 PM 3/1/03 -0500, Richard, Barbara & Robbie Damon wrote:
>Darrell,
>While having one record for a place for all time may work for many cities
>and towns, as you get to bigger divisions it will breakdown too many times
>(and even for some cities). There are too many cases of a region breaking up
>into several or several regions combining.
>
>What would make sense is to have a place entry have a link to the place(s)
>it later became or what it was previously. This combined with the begin &
>end dates of a place should provide most of the data to trace the evolution
>of places.
>
>Richard Damon

Hi, Richard:

My wishlist request is limited to places that the *user* has determined are
the same. And although I agree that the current setup allows one to "trace
the evolution of places", it does not provide for the kinds of sorting and
selecting that I would like. I should not have to remember, or have a
post-it note on my monitor to remind me, that if I want to check events in
Sherburne, Vermont I also have to include events in Killington, Vermont.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/


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