Deleting a Person Does NOT Cleanup Associated Place A good software program should never delete a “field” (text) in a database if the field is in use. In other words, if you delete Mary Smith from your database and the place associated with her is Hillbilly Holler, NotAReal County, Alabama, USA
hree genealogy software programs (Family Tree Maker, Legacy, & RootsMagic) provide various capabilities regarding what can be done with the places | locations in your database. This article is not going to explore what those are—there could be a future article should there be interest. The focus of this article
To Period or Not To Period–THAT Is the Question. With regard to Shakespeare ~ Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer Periods or No Periods in Names. Did Shakespeare write about genealogy? Okay, probably not and obviously certain “liberties” taken with the above. Our instinct is to use periods
Yes, Virginia, there is a correct way to enter the names in your genealogy database or in hard copy. And Yes, this is marked a *MUST DO*. Preferred Method: SURNAME, First Middle Example: DOE, John James Acceptable (but not as good) Method: Surname, First Middle