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An overview of countries with the relevant genealogical information about them:
* genealogical organisations with contact information
* digital archives you can consult online (free or fee based) with an appraisal
* location of archives, and how to consult sources there
* relevant history of the country viz-a-viz genealogy
* pointers to locations in the country, with details (as always, relevant to genealogy, eg an abbey of which many sources are available, ...)
 
== What is a Place? ==
A [[GRAMPS_Glossary#P|Place]] in GRAMPS generally refers to where an event occurred. This is different to an Address (see for example [[Why_residence_event_and_not_Address%3F]]).
The [http://gramps-project.org/gramps-manual/2.2/en/ch02.html#places-view| Places View] lists all the places in your GRAMPS database, and is a handy spot to make sure your places are named consistently.
A [[Gramps_Glossary#P|Place]] in Gramps generally refers to where an event occurred. This is different to an Address (see for example [[Why residence event and not Address%3F]]). A place is a geographical region of any size ranging from that of a country to a burial plot. Boundaries of a place may vary over time. The latitude and longitude of an approximate centre point can be recorded. A Gramps ID and place type can be specified. Notes and media can also be attached to a place. == Editing Place names == A place is identified by a name which may change over time and can be entered in different languages. For example, the city of Saint Petersburg in Russia could be defined with the following names: * Санкт-Петербу́рг (1703-1914) [ru]* Петрогра́д (1914-1924) [ru]* Ленингра́д (1924-1991) [ru]* Санкт-Петербу́рг (1991-) [ru]* Saint Petersburg (1703-1914) [en]* Petrograd (1914-1924) [en]* Leningrad (1924-1991) [en]* Saint Petersburg (1991-) [en] Assuming the default Places [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Places |Preferences]] settings of auto-generation of titles is enabled, automatic place title generation will choose the appropriate name, given the date of an event and the language code specified in the preferences. Where there is no event date available, or if the place is displayed without reference to an event, then today's date is used. Each name is processed in turn. A name is matched if the date range contains the event date and the language code is the same as the language preference setting. An empty date range is interpreted as matching any date. If there is no language code match, names defined with an empty language code are used as a fallback. The main name is processed before the alternative names. [[File:SaintPeterburgFullNames.png|600px|thumb|right|Fig. 1. Saint Petersburg Place example]]For example, Figure 1 shows the Place view for the above described Saint Petersburg. Note the order of the entries, the date ranges, and the language codes. {{-}} [[File:EventViewSaintPeterburgPlace.png|600px|thumb|right|Fig. 2. Saint Petersburg Event example]]Events can be created at specific dates for this place and the title generation will follow the rules above. In the first event in Figure 2, the title generated is '?' because the place has no entries for this date (1500 is not between 1703 and today). In the second event in Figure 2, the generated title - Петрогра́д - corresponds to the first place that matches the date range since the language preference setting is blank. In the fourth event, again the generated title is the first place that matches the date range. Note that the order of the Alternate Names in Figure 1 is important in title generation when the default language is blank. If the Language is specified in the Places [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#Places|Preferences]], then that language will be used if found. If the language is not found, the first date match will be used.  The title generation is done at the event update, and it not refreshed if the Place is edited. In the case where the Place is updated, the event would have to be subsequently updated as well to regenerate the title with the corresponding change in the Place.{{-}} == Place hierarchy ==GRAMPS provides [[File:SaintPeterburgPlaceHierarchy.png|600px|thumb|right|Fig. 3. Saint Petersburg Place Hierarchy example]]Places can be linked together to form a window hierarchy. This enables different places with the same name to be distinguished from each other. For example, there are also places called Saint Petersburg outside of Russia: * Saint Petersburg --> Russia* Saint Petersburg --> Colorado --> USA* St. Petersburg --> Florida --> USA* St. Petersburg --> Pennsylvania --> USA A title can be generated by following the links. So "Saint Petersburg, Russia" would describe the city in which you Russia. Figure 3 illustrates the Place Editor view (with autogenerated titles) for these cities. {{-}}[[File:AlsacePlaceHierarchy.png|600px|thumb|right|Fig. 4. Alsace Place Hierarchy example]]The place hierarchy can edit also be used in filters, to find all places located in another place. Multiple links with date ranges are allowed. This makes possible more complex cases where a placemoves from being located within one place into another. Alsace makes a good example:
[[Image:Edit* Alsace -Place(1618–1674)-1.png|Example Edit Place dialogue]]> Holy Roman Empire* Alsace -(1674–1871)-> France* Alsace -(1871–1918)-> Germany* Alsace -(1919–1940)-> France* Alsace -(1940–1944)-> Germany* Alsace -(1945–)-> France
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[[File:EventViewAlsacePlace.png|600px|thumb|right|Fig. 4. Events with different dates in Alsace example]]
Figure 5 is the Event Editor view which illustrates that the generated title for an event is based on the date of the event when traversing the place hierarchy.
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Use the [[Place_completion_tool]] to help automate the management of your places, as this allows you to edit several places in one go. It is also an easy way to determine and include latitude and longitude of cities and towns.== Source description ==
== Organising your places ==There are several ways you could organise your placesPlaces in the hierarchy provide standardized titles. The concept of Event attributes with a place in genealogy is very complex, due both to the level key of detail you wish "Place" can be used to capture, and the changes over time to the name of a place. Ultimately how much of this complexity you record in your database is up to you, but you will probably find it advantageous to consider your options before you have too many places as described in your dataa source.
The summary below indicates some of This allows spelling variations to be recorded without the ways current GRAMPS users organise their need to create extra places. It also allows more than one place to be recorded for an event.
=== Level of detail ===The level of detail recorded for a place affects the number of places you have. One option is to not include detail finer than town or city in a placeFor example, in which case the ''Street'' field is always left empty. When further detail is to be recorded for an event, it can go in a note associated with that eventSaint Petersburg could have two citations. This has One may describe the advantage that your places are easier to manage, place as "Saint Petersburg" and can appear more consistent in reports. A disadvantage is that you may need to include the same note text against many events, for example if they all occurred at the one address. GRAMPS 3other "St.0 will reduce this problem, as notes can be shared amongst events. Another possible disadvantage is that the place details may not be displayed in reports in the way you wishPetersburg".
The other extreme is to specify as fine detail as possible, which may involve putting a lot of information into the ''Street'' field. A drawback is that you will end up with a very large number of Place entries.== Editing Places ==
An approach that is between the above two involves treating a place as a geographic location on the Earth. The land use (e.g. St Luke's Church) would be a note{{icon|plac}} [[Gramps_4. How you identify 2_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#Places_Category|Places Category View]] lists all the geographic location may not always be obvious: places in your Gramps database, and is a street address (e.g. 25 High St) will often be sufficienthandy spot to make sure your places are named consistently.
No matter Gramps also provides a [[Gramps_4.2_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Place_Editor_dialog|window in which approach you take, you will probably end up with some place entries more general that others. For example, you may well end up with can edit a place ''Australia'', and another ''Tasmania, Australia'', and another ''Hobart, Tasmania, Australia''.]]:
=== Changes over time ===A given place can change its name over time[[File:Place editor 42. This change may be as minor as a change in street number or name, or a complete change in name of town and countrypng|450px|thumb|right|Fig. There are different ways of recording this, but most people seem to choose one name which they list on the Location tab, and the other names go on the Alternate Locations tab5.Example Edit Place dialogue]]
Some put Enter the modern day details ''Name'' and ''Type'' of the place in the Location tab, and historical details under Alternate Locationsfields provided. The ''ID'' field will be populated automatically by Gramps. This has at least two drawbacks:
# You may not know the modern day details for The ''Code'' can be used to store a place when entering it.# If the modern details change, you have to remember to update everythingcountry code or postal code.
Other people prefer to put The region in which the place belongs should be recorded in the Location ''Enclosed By'' tab the details as they were . Every place except for countries should have at the time of the event, and the modern details under Alternate Locationsleast one entry. This also is not perfect, as you need Multiple entries are useful to decide what to do if you have two record a place that has been part of different events at the same place, but separated administrative regions over time. The first entry in time such that the list will be used to construct default place details differtitles. Which do you put in the Locations tab?
=== Variations of a place name over time or different language versions, can be recorded in the ''Place NameAlternative Names'' field ===tab.The first field in the Edit Place window is generally displayed where space is limited, such as in some graphical reports. Therefore some people like to put in here a short descriptive name.{{-}}
Other people prefer this field to be a repeat of all the fields in the location tab in the bottom of the window. It can be listed either from the most specific, or the least.== Known Issues ==
For example, * The place views and event editors always display the modern place title.* The mechanism for selecting an existing place or adding a location of ''Street'': Rundle Mall, ''City:'' Adelaide, ''State:'' South Australia, ''Country:'' Australia, ''Postal Code:'' 5000new place needs improving.* The place tree view only displays each place once.* Using an empty language code for endonyms, different people would set the ''Place Name'' field to one of:makes entering some place names cumbersome.
* Rundle Mall* Rundle Mall, Adelaide* Rundle Mall, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia* Australia, 5000, South Australia, Adelaide, Rundle Mall== Possible future enhancements ==
There are, of course, also minor variations on those listed above.* Time dependent place types* Hierarchy types in links between places* Import from the GOV database (See {{bug|8974}})* Experimental place gazetteer (See: {{bug|8812}})
Some people ensure the ''Place Name'' field has everything they want, and they leave the Location tab empty.{{-}}
== The Future ==[[Category:Documentation]]The developers have indicated that they believe the handling of places in GRAMPS could be improved, but as the current system is adequate and there many higher priority tasks, a reworking of the places in GRAMPS is not likely to happen for some time.[[Category:Translators/Categories]][[Category:Gramps terminology]][[Category:Places]][[Category:Tutorials]]
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