Select Location

 

Since many events happened in the same locations, there is an easy way to select a location for an event.  When you are on the Edit screen and want to enter a location, type the first three or four letters of a location that was entered previously and then press F8 or click the Location menu item at the top of the screen.  You will then get a list of existing locations that start with the letters that you typed.  Pick the location you want and press enter or click Select.

 

If you want to enter a location that is the same as the location showing for the event above on the grid, you may type " as the first and only character in the location field.  Then press the Tab key and it will copy the location from above.

 

Another shortcut when entering locations is = (the equal sign).  When you enter = in a location field, it will make the location equal to what that same field was for the last person you entered or displayed.  For example, if you are entering data for a wife, and she was born in the same city as the husband, you may enter = for her place of birth.  When you push Tab, it will display the same location that you entered for the husband.  This is handy for times when  "  would not work because there are other locations directly above that are different.  If several children were born in the same location, you may enter = in the birth location and it will duplicate the location for the previous child that you entered.  You may use = to duplicate any of the main five location fields from the previous person entered (birth, baptism, christened, died, buried.)  Remember that " will copy whatever is currently above on the screen at the time, whereas = will duplicate from the same location field from the previous person you entered. 

 

To change the spelling or capitalization of a location, see change location.

   

See also Locations