New Place?

Sjohnson54

How can I get a place in Switzerland to pop up under the Standardized places? Ruebisburg, Zurich, Switzerland is a very very small town. It had two houses in it when my grandfather and all of his siblings were born. I don't think it has grown much, but it was still a place. Can I add it to the list, and if so how, if not can someone at Family Search add it to the list? thank you

Julia Szent-Györgyi

You can suggest a new place for the database using the "Suggest a New Place" link at the top left of the Places tool (https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/?pagenum=1&pagesize=20).

In the meantime, if you know a nearby, larger place -- such as where the church was -- you can use that as the standardized location. For example, if you type in "Ruebisburg, Zurich, Switzerland" in the place field, then click the reddish text at the top of the dropdown, this will result in the placename being displayed as what you typed, and the map pin being the top choice in the dropdown, which is the canton.

You can change it to the city by clicking the down-arrow next to "Zürich, Switzerland" and choosing "Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland" instead.