New Volunteer Opportunity
New Volunteer Opportunity is great to have on the new page.
However, it would be nice if the place suggested if not standardized could be added in the 'reason' area so that in the future a person may be able to actually have it as a reference.
Someday more places will be standardized as I understand but the information saved may be useful.
Thank you.....
An example from Danish records -
Area noted 'not standardised'
Bro Mølle= Lerchenfeldt Mølle, Vester bølle, Viborg, Danmark
'Standardized' - leaves out the details of the place
Vester Bølle, Viborg, Denmark
The same may apply for example when a USA give 'Ward 8' which may differ from
'Ward 7' in the same area ??
Comments
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You may be misunderstanding something about the Volunteer Project.
When you link a standardized version of the place name to a user entered place name, you do not change anything on the person detail page. You are not removing any information. All you are doing is putting a note on the person to tell the program what place is meant by the user entered place.
To illustrate, I'll run through one of these.
Here is the Volunteer Project page:
Going to this person's page you see:
and checking the Data View pop up:
Now going back to the Volunteer Project and linking a standardized value:
Links the standard so that returning to the person's page now shows:
The user entered place name has not changed. No information has been lost or removed. Checking the Data View pop up:
You can see the standardized version that has been linked to the actual place name. This is how "standardization" works in Family Tree. All place names are entered twice as the user entered, free-form, full, correct version and as the linked "standardized" version which is just a text representation of the best available latitude and longitude in the Places database.
The user entered place is to allow the most accurate place name possible to use in further research. The linked standardized version is to give an approximate location for the program to use in hinting, possible duplicate, and search routines. Without the linked standardized version, the program is basically blind and has no idea what place the user entered. That is why the Volunteer Project was put in place.
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