RootsMagic 8:Place List

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To open a list of all the places that have been entered into the program, choose "Lists, Place list" from the main menu. You can also open the Place list by clicking the place list button next to place fields in fact edit pane.

The left side contains a list of all the places you have entered in your file. As you highlight a place in the list, RootsMagic will display information about that place on the right side of the screen. The lower right section of the screen will show any place details you have associated with that place. While a "place" is usually a city, county, state, country type of location, place details are more specific, like a street address, hospital, or cemetery in the place.

The Place list offers the following options:

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Edit – Highlight the place that you want to edit and make your changes, and click Edit. After making the changes, click OK to accept the changes or Cancel to close the dialog without making changes. If you change a place to match another one in the list, RootsMagic will automatically merge the two places together for you. You can also enter the latitude and longitude of the place, as well as adding a place history or other comments about the place from the "Place note" button , or adding place specific images or other media via the "Place media" button.

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Delete – Highlight the place that you want to remove from the list and click Delete. RootsMagic will ask if you are sure you want to delete the place. If an event occurred in a place that you delete, the place field in that event will be blank.

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Print – Click the Print button to print the place list, or a list of events that happened in a place.

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Merge - When you have two places you want to merge together (perhaps different spellings of the same place), highlight the place you want to keep, then click the "Merge" button. You can then select any duplicates and click the Merge button to merge the duplicate places into the selected one.

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Online map - Click this button to go online and try to display an online map of the highlighted place.

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GeoCode – Click this button to GeoCode all the places in your database. You will be asked to confirm that you want to GeoCode the places in your database which don't already have a latitude and longitude assigned. If you click Yes, GeoCode will look at each place in you place list without a latitude and longitude and, if it can identify a corresponding place, add the latitude and longitude values as well as the "Standardize place name".

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Place details – Click this button to get a list of all the place details assigned to the highlighted place. Place details are things like hospitals, cemeteries, addresses, etc. that you may have entered for the highlighted place. You can also edit the place detail information directly from this Place List by clicking or double clicking in the place detail area.

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Unused places – Click this button to get a list of all the places in the database which aren't being used by an event or fact.

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Close – Closes the Place list.