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From: Polly Held <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Deleting a Place Name
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 11:48:37 -0400
References: <KLEHKLBKCGJNIPPLHNGOIEHFDBAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>
In-Reply-To: <KLEHKLBKCGJNIPPLHNGOIEHFDBAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


Cheri Casper wrote:

>Polly - The reason that you get US is that New York is linked to the higher
>place level US. You can make a name variant for New York that does not have
>a higher link. Then when you enter you can enter it either way.
>Munnsville must be marked a Local Site, instead of a City which is suspect
>it is. You need to go to the place record for Munnsville, and delete the
>higher place.
>
Cheri, this is where I get into trouble. What is the procedure for
deleting higher places? I must be doing something incorrectly as I end
up with empty places and a nasty error message that says you can't have
an empty place record. Could you step me through deleting higher places?

> Then "promote" Munnsville to a city and add back the county
>and state as the higher place.
>
>CheriC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Polly Held [mailto:]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 6:54 AM
>To:
>Subject: [GENBOX] Deleting a Place Name
>
>
>I am still struggling with changing/altering/deleting place names. I
>have a place name - Munnsville, City of Oneida, Madison County, New
>York, United States. It is an error since Munnsville is not in the City
>of Oneida. I went to the event that the place is linked to and changed
>it to Munnsville, Madison County, New York. Now there are no links to
>the incorrect place. Now I want to get rid of the incorrect place. Is it
>as simple as going to the place and on the Data pull-down menu,
>selecting Delete Place or is it more complicated than that?
>
>Also, even though I stop typing a place name after the state (usually
>New York), GenBox decides that United States should be inserted and
>automatically inserts it at the end, even though I don't want it.
>
>Polly
>
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