HISTORICAL LOCATION
Not sure what the heading of the page is <https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?focusedId=10995396&searchTypeaheadInputText=Kielce&text=Kielce&pagenum=1&pagesize=20> is the last lookup I did.
In attached example I looked up Kielce to see proper naming historically. Under the map (lower part) I see Kielce Guberniya, Russian Empire. If this is the location I wish, do I simply highlight this name meaning Kielce is not "standalone" but actually two words? In upper portion the word "Governorate" is shown but not in lower. Does that mean it's not part of name? What happens when the years shown don't include the period I'm looking for? Also, what order are the names sorted in? Alpha or by year?
Example, the image shows 1867-1917 to ask my question. I'm actually looking for 1806.
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The Places database is constantly evolving (hopefully in a good direction). For some locations, "utter mess" is the kindest possible description -- but the good news is that it seldom really matters. As long as you associate your entry in Family Tree with a label that points to the correct coordinates, the rest of the details are not important. Yes, it's nice to find a standard that names the right country for the time of the event, because the fan chart uses that if you choose to color it by birth country, for example, but the correct jurisdiction for the exact date you want sometimes simply isn't in the database (yet).
In the example you gave, "guberniya" is a Russian word meaning roughly "province".
The results in the Research Places interface are nominally in alphabetical order, but it searches by alternate names, too, while showing only the display name, so the ordering can look totally random. And no, I haven't been able to figure out how it sorts multiple entries with the same name. I think it's by date, but it's really hard to tell.
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