I recently got back into research, & changed from PAF to RootsMagic
I decided to merge both my parents trees, as I couldn't think of a good reason to keep them separate anymore, & decided to take the opportunity for a major tidy up.
Merging duplicate sources was pretty easy.
RM wants you to separate street address/hospital/cemetery etc from the location, which is fair enough,
I hadn't realised what a mess many of my places were.
Missing counties, Country, or commas were all pretty easy, to sort, except that RM wants to add United Kingdom after England, or Scotland & I don't, & I haven't found an easy way to handle that.
Then you get to London/Middlesex
for a start RM's gazetteer seems to think nearly everywhere in London, is in Middlesex, regardless of date, so there is no easy solution there, I have to check each record to see if it's listed as Middlesex or London.
But even that isn't as straightforward as you'd think
for instance
1853 death certificate,
Shoreditch, Haggerstone West, Middlesex
2 Hertford Street, Shoreditch
1855 birth certificate,
Shoreditch, Haggerstone West, Middlesex
2 Hertford Street, Haggerstone, Shoreditch
1857 birth certificate,
Shoreditch, Haggerstone West, Middlesex
2 Hertford Street, Shoreditch
1859 birth certificate,
Shoreditch, Haggerstone West, Middlesex
2 Hertford Street, Shoreditch
1867 death certificate,
Shoreditch, Haggerstone West, Middlesex
11 Hertford Street, Haggerstone
I've got the same sort of problem with
numerous other places in London/Middlesex, & I'm not really sure,
what the correct address form would be.
How do you handle entries like this?
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so any ideas welcome.