What you are seeing is Fast Fields for data entry.
Fast Fields uses your current Place Names that you have entered for the first four digits you enter. On the fifth digit that you enter, the pick list then refers to your current place names list plus all place names in the Place Name Authority.
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What we're referring to above is a new feature in resolving non-standard place names that was introduced when heirarchical place names was introduced.
You access Resolving Place Names from two places. One is right click on a Place Name in the Places Workspace. The other is in the Family Tab of the People Workspace, place field of a fact. Note that if a names is unresolved, there is a little icon to the right of the name with a question mark beside it. Click on that question mark to resolve that name.
For people new to FTM, or with small files, that is a feature they may want to consider using.
For people like me who have been using FTM for years and have thousands of non-standard names - no, thank you. I've got better things to do with my time than resolve thousands of non-standard place names. I'll just trudge on the way I have before: non-standard place names just stay non-standard place names. I do try to resolve them as I run across them, particularly cemetery place names.
I personally wish they would have just adopted heirarchical place names as you entered them and then just show them on a "right-to-left" organization basis, rather than require the heirarchical place names to be resolved, but c'est la vie.
Fast Fields uses your current Place Names that you have entered for the first four digits you enter. On the fifth digit that you enter, the pick list then refers to your current place names list plus all place names in the Place Name Authority.
______________
What we're referring to above is a new feature in resolving non-standard place names that was introduced when heirarchical place names was introduced.
You access Resolving Place Names from two places. One is right click on a Place Name in the Places Workspace. The other is in the Family Tab of the People Workspace, place field of a fact. Note that if a names is unresolved, there is a little icon to the right of the name with a question mark beside it. Click on that question mark to resolve that name.
For people new to FTM, or with small files, that is a feature they may want to consider using.
For people like me who have been using FTM for years and have thousands of non-standard names - no, thank you. I've got better things to do with my time than resolve thousands of non-standard place names. I'll just trudge on the way I have before: non-standard place names just stay non-standard place names. I do try to resolve them as I run across them, particularly cemetery place names.
I personally wish they would have just adopted heirarchical place names as you entered them and then just show them on a "right-to-left" organization basis, rather than require the heirarchical place names to be resolved, but c'est la vie.