Place checking customisation?

RootsMagic
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First post! I have RM9. I’ve not found any features which are worse than RM8 and I’ve just about got used to the differences to RM7 & predecessors!

However, there is one feature common to RM8 & 9 which is driving me bonkers, and that is its insistence on telling me that I need to add ‘United Kingdom’ to all of my ‘England’ addresses. As 99% of my addresses are in England, this is unnecessary verbiage to me and I prefer not to have it. However, every ******* time I add an address, I get asked if I want to add @United Kingdom’. It’s really getting me down!

Is there a way to stop this, preferably without disabling large chunks of the place database?

Allied with this is its insistence that “West Riding of Yorkshire” is not a county. It may not technically be a county, but even Wikipedia says that the ridings functioned as counties and I’d rather have that as it’s rather more useful to me.

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You can disable CountyCheck which will stop this behaviour completely. It is in Settings → Program Settings → untick the ‘Use CountyCheck when entering places’

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Thanks. I will have to do that - although the check can be useful at times.

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You can still do the check manually when there is a need by clicking on the Gazetteer icon in the Edit Person screen. The Gazetteer icon is invisible until you highlight a Place field, and it remains hiding in plain sight even then. After you highlight a Place field, two very small icons appear at the far right end of the Place field. Of those two icons, the one on the left is for Gazetteer.

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If you want to globally remove United Kingdom you can do so using data clean - Placeclean, add or remove country.

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Thanks. That’s useful to know.

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“If you want to globally remove United Kingdom you can do so using data clean - Placeclean, add or remove country.”

I don’t really want to do that - it seems to be an inherent part of the structure, but thanks.

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It boils down to ‘turn it off and not be bothered’ or ‘leave it on and click through it every time you add a new place’.

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Indeed. I’ve switched it off & will see how I get on.