Place Index (View Menu)

What is the Place Index?

The Place Index stores all place names used in your database for any type of event or attribute. You can search via Alphabetical or Hierarchical.

Once you have selected a location record from the list, the following options are available:

events at this location

rename

html  event report

hide

look up normalized place names

Why is a Place Index Helpful?

1. Adding jurisdictions to places, such as a city or a county, to a location selected in the index is much quicker than correcting a place name one record at a time.
2. Correcting misspelled place names in the Place Index changes all records linked with that location.  
   Example Mi, Mich, Michigan, Michigian can be corrected as Michigan
3. Normalize places using new FamilySearch.
   Example Tecumseh, Mi, USA is changed to Tecumseh, Lenawee, Michigan, United States
4. Print a report of records linked to a particular place.