# Automatically adding country based on date! **URL:** \ **Category:** RootsMagic\ **Tags:** feature-request\ **Created:** [January 13, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283 "2022-01-13T17:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dcslatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@dcslatter](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/dcslatter)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283/1 "2022-01-13T17:13:02Z")
I would love to see RM add an IF clause to the place record. If the date is before ??/??? the use (This field as Country) else (Use This field). ie. If the date of the fact is before “07/04/1776” use " British Colonial America" else “United States”. Even if it is in the “Clean Place” tool. Another nice to have would be a "Replace “this” with “that” option. ---
**Author:** ![kfunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/kfunk/32/68_2.png) [@kfunk](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/kfunk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2022, 2:14am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283/2 "2022-01-14T02:14:25Z")
I really hate when I have to do the work to make sure my data is correct. I think my software should also take care of this for me. I think the software should do all of my genealogy for me! ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tomh/32/30_2.png) [@TomH](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 12:44am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283/4 "2022-01-15T00:44:54Z")
The County Check feature is date sensitive but results in multiple Place entries for the same locale. Canada West is not the same RM Place as Ontario despite being the same area before and after July 1, 1867. ---
**Author:** ![dcslatter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5a626/32.png) [@dcslatter](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/dcslatter)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283/5 "2022-01-15T21:08:25Z")
Am I missing something?? What “County Check” feature? I am working with a lot of records from England around 1801. I have to create two places for each location. Like “Oxford, Oxfordshire, England” pre1801 and “Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom” post 1801. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tomh/32/30_2.png) [@TomH](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2022, 9:43pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283/6 "2022-01-15T21:43:56Z")
> [@dcslatter](#): > > What “County Check” feature? It’s a feature in RM7. I guess it is still not implemented in RM8. It still results in additional place names if the county, province or country varies over time. It just warns you that the name you’ve entered is historically different for the event’s date. ---
**Author:** ![JimBowers](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/jimbowers/32/759_2.png) [@JimBowers](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/JimBowers)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283/7 "2022-01-19T20:50:31Z")
Great idea. I’d like to see the same thing in the major on-line databases as well. ---
**Author:** ![Terry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/terry/32/108_2.png) [@Terry](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Terry)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 12:42am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/automatically-adding-country-based-on-date/3283/8 "2022-01-20T00:42:47Z")
Is the suggestion that the program stores every major political event that changed a boundary, name or whatever for every country in the world including countries that no longer exist or is it that each user can set up a list of “if/else” statements in some part of the program that would be invoked whenever a Place name is entered?