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How to Include Both Historic Locations and Current Locations in an Individual's Record

Author: Reference Number: AA-01014 Views: 50338 Created: 2015-06-23 08:52 PM Last Updated: 2022-05-10 08:16 AM 100 Rating/ 3 Voters

A cardinal rule of family history is to record a location as shown on the earliest record you have of the event. Many times the place where a birth took place is in a different county or province today and in some cases even in a different country! For example, a person may have been born in a town which is in Poland today, but the town may have been part of Austrian Galicia (or perhaps maybe Prussia) when the event took place. Boundary lines change over time in many parts of the United States as well as the rest of the world.

To make this clear to others who see your research you can add a custom event named Current Location.

1. In the Individual's Information window click the Add button to open the Add Event screen.

2. Create a new Event called Current Location by typing it into the Event/Fact field. Also add the Description (in lower case), Date and Place.

2. Next click the small blue down-arrow to open the Master Event Definition List.

3. At this point you will want to create a sentence, which when processed, results in the wording that will appear on reports.  The sentence can contain [fields] and <conditional formulas>. Click the Edit button.


4. Copy and paste the following into the If All Fields filled line:

     [CoupleFirstNames]'s [date] [Desc] place (listed above) is how it was known then. On today's map the [Desc] location is [Place].[Sources]

By the way, the use of [CoupleFirstNames] will make the Current Location event applicable to marriages as well.

5. Next click the Save button. If you want more information about any of the above steps, click the Help button in whatever screen you have questions about.

6. Keep in mind that additional information can be added to Event Notes.


7. Now when you create a report you can use your Current Location event to clarify where the historic location can be found on a modern map. The Family Group Report below was created with the Event options turned on. (The yellow highlighting is to emphasize how the Current Location event reads.)