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« on: June 24, 2016, 07:19:25 »
Hello Don,
Places hierarchy. That's the way the jurisdictional entities are named in your genealogy, from the lowest to the highest jurisdiction.
This is an example:
Parish,City,Zip_Code,County,State,Country
In your example, you have :
Offerle,Edwards County,Kansas
It means your Places hierarchy is :
City,County,State
A genealogy must follow the gedcom specifications. It means that your gedcom file must contain in its header an information in the following format (this is mine)
1 GEDC
2 VERS 5.5
2 FORM Lineage-Linked
1 CHAR UTF-8
1 LANG French
1 PLAC
2 FORM Lieudit,Commune,Code_INSEE,Département,Région,Pays
If I try to translate it in english (the jurisdictions are not the same between the US and France), it could be :
1 PLAC
2 FORM Hamlet,City,Zip_Code,County,State,Country
Now, when you created your gedcom file from FTM, I don't know whether or not you had such tags in your header, and if the tags were well fullfilled.
When Ancestris loaded for the first time your gedcom file, it applied the default tags as it didn't find the right information.
So now, when you create a new record (birth place, death place, wedding place), it will follow the jurisdictional hierarchy of the header. That's why you can't find the old information at the right places.
I don't remember any more how v. 0.8 works, but v. 0.9beta has been totally rewritten on the places (jurisdictions) management. You have now a brand new wizard to help you to manage it very easily.
I know there are different ways to manage places in v. 0.8 but I don't remember how they work. Maybe you could open your gedcom file (xxxxx.ged) with a simple editor like notepad for windows, gedit for linux, and check the two tags I speak about above.
If you want your jurisdictions to be the ones you had with FTM, you should write :
City,County,State
If you want to add a Country, you should write :
City,County,State,Country
The number of commas is very important as the jurisdictions must be separated by a comma.
If you write :
,City,,County,State,Country
it means that City will be the second jurisdiction, County the fourth, State the fifth, etc..
Hope that explanation helps. Regards, Francois
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