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From: Wim Prange <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] GENBOX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 71
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:22:05 +0100
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Hi Geoffrey,

Note that the Date of an event can take the form of a span or a range:
"from ... to... " or "between ... and ..."
See the help file for more info about date-entry.

You could consider creating a "Residencies" event when you have a lot
of people in your database who have moved around a lot. You could then
use the note-field for a list of residencies with the dates. When you
have entered those residencies as local sites in your place-list, you
could use the code for those places in the note with Edit > Insert
Field Code... or Ctrl+D. The code will look like [L1234] for the
standard name of an adress or [LN1234] if you want to use a Place Name
Variant.

And you could do both: several Residency-events ánd one
Residencies-event for the same individual. Depending on how you want
to report it at the time, you could use only one Event-type and leave
the other out.

Wim

2011/12/16 Denise L. Moss-Fritch <>:
> Geoffrey,
>
> I use a Residence event to identify a place, or multiple places dependent
> upon date, to identify where someone resided.  With a Residence event, I can
> add a source, identify the spelling of the primary individual's name (if
> needed), include witnesses (others also living at that residence), and a
> photo.
>
> Best,
>
> Denise L. Moss-Fritch
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Geoffrey Donnan
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 7:05 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] GENBOX Digest, Vol 6, Issue 71
>
> I'm preparing to enter a bunch of Places where people lived chronologically.
> In some cases it is just a town where they lived from say 1945 to 1963, and
> then another place from 1963 to 1967, etc.  In other cases, it is specific
> addresses where they may have lived from such a year to such a year.  In
> many cases, it will be a combination of both.  What is the best way to do
> that in GenBox or can it really be done.  My best idea is to have events,
> but then it is confused with other situations.
>
> Can all of this be sorted eventually chronologically in some sort of print
> out?  Can events and places lived also be sorted out so that a print out can
> be made of where a person lived and the major events that took place while
> they lived there, etc.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Geoffrey W. Donnan
>
>
> And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the LORD, and not unto men ...
> Col. 3:23
>
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> Today's Topics:
>
>   1. Re: Place Help Needed (Wim Prange)
>   2. Re: Place Help Needed (Cheri Casper)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:17:11 +0100
> From: Wim Prange <>
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> Hi CheriC
>
> When you select that Name-variant in Places View, is the box "Replace with
> standard on input"?ticked?
>
> Wim
>
> 2011/12/14 Cheri Casper <>:
>> I already have an existing place with a variant that reads:
>> ?(probably) Lexington, Lafayette Co., Missouri.
>>
>> I'm trying to create a similar place variant that would read:
>> ?(probably) Kentucky, United States
>>
>> Although I have that variant in my Kentucky place name record, when I
>> try typing that into a place field, GB insists on removing the (probably).
>>
>> Any ideas? ?Why should one variant be allowed and not the other when
>> the only difference is that one is a town/city level and the other a
>> state level? ?Doesn't make any sense.
>>
>> Yes, I know I can change the sentence, but I want to see the
>> (probably) in the place field on the summary tab.
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>> Cheri Casper
>>
>> 1220 W. 13th Street
>> Spokane, WA 99204
>> tel: (509) 624-4497
>> ------------------------------------
>>
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> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:01:31 -0800
> From: "Cheri Casper" <>
> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Place Help Needed
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> No.
>
> CheriC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On
> Behalf Of Wim Prange
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:17 AM
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> Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Place Help Needed
>
> Hi CheriC
>
> When you select that Name-variant in Places View, is the box "Replace with
> standard on input"?ticked?
>
> Wim
>
> 2011/12/14 Cheri Casper <>:
>> I already have an existing place with a variant that reads:
>> ?(probably) Lexington, Lafayette Co., Missouri.
>>
>> I'm trying to create a similar place variant that would read:
>> ?(probably) Kentucky, United States
>>
>> Although I have that variant in my Kentucky place name record, when I
>> try typing that into a place field, GB insists on removing the (probably).
>>
>> Any ideas? ?Why should one variant be allowed and not the other when
>> the only difference is that one is a town/city level and the other a
>> state level? ?Doesn't make any sense.
>>
>> Yes, I know I can change the sentence, but I want to see the
>> (probably) in the place field on the summary tab.
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>> Cheri Casper
>>
>> 1220 W. 13th Street
>> Spokane, WA 99204
>> tel: (509) 624-4497
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>>
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