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Why did FamilySearch stop using standard places?

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May 19, 2022 in Family Tree
This discussion was created from comments split from: FS is getting more and more unstable.
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  • Scott Lawrence Robinson
    Scott Lawrence Robinson ✭
    May 18, 2022

    Why did FamilySearch stop using standard places?

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  • Graham Buckell
    Graham Buckell mod
    May 18, 2022

    @Scott Lawrence Robinson

    This would have been better as a new question.

    In what way has it stopped? The use of standardised place names still works for me.

    Regards

    Graham Buckell

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 18, 2022

    Unless you are referring to the half hour I had a couple of days ago when the drop down menu for place names stopped working, which has since fixed itself, the use of standardized places has not changed at all. FamilySearch has not stopped using them. People do continue to misunderstand standardized places and misuse them, but that is a different problem.

    Are you by any chance referring to the recent change in the Places database in which they decided that including "Territory" in a place name was not really needed? This is similar to the view that County is not needed in US county names. Along with dropping Territory, they also merged territories with the corresponding state so that one standardized name covers both. This has not been met with much enthusiasm, (See https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/123608/please-reverse-the-recent-action-that-means-there-is-no-separation-of-u-s-states-and-territories#latest and https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/124534/why-are-us-territories-missing#latest )

    This is not a change in how to use standardized place names at all, just what is in the standards database. You can still enter Territory as part of the place name and standardize the place name correctly without any difficulty when it is appropriate to do so.

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