# Place checking customisation? **URL:** \ **Category:** RootsMagic\ **Tags:** question, feature-request, rootsmagic\ **Created:** [March 10, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723 "2023-03-10T15:34:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dev\_IanT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/dev_iant/32/1593_2.png) [@Dev\_IanT](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Dev_IanT)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/1 "2023-03-10T15:34:39Z")
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. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2023, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/2 "2023-03-10T15:47:34Z")
You can disable CountyCheck which will stop this behaviour completely. It is in Settings → Program Settings → untick the ‘Use CountyCheck when entering places’ ---
**Author:** ![Dev\_IanT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/dev_iant/32/1593_2.png) [@Dev\_IanT](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Dev_IanT)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/3 "2023-03-10T16:07:37Z")
Thanks. I will have to do that - although the check can be useful at times. ---
**Author:** ![thejerrybryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/thejerrybryan/32/404_2.png) [@thejerrybryan](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/thejerrybryan)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:02pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/4 "2023-03-10T19:02:06Z")
> [@Dev\_IanT](#): > > although the check can be useful at times. 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. ---
**Author:** ![MKGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MKGT](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/MKGT)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/5 "2023-03-10T19:14:13Z")
If you want to globally remove United Kingdom you can do so using data clean - Placeclean, add or remove country. ---
**Author:** ![Dev\_IanT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/dev_iant/32/1593_2.png) [@Dev\_IanT](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Dev_IanT)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/6 "2023-03-10T20:14:02Z")
Thanks. That’s useful to know. ---
**Author:** ![Dev\_IanT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/dev_iant/32/1593_2.png) [@Dev\_IanT](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Dev_IanT)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/7 "2023-03-10T20:15:15Z")
“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. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/8 "2023-03-10T23:03:55Z")
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’. ---
**Author:** ![Dev\_IanT](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/dev_iant/32/1593_2.png) [@Dev\_IanT](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/Dev_IanT)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2023, 11:36am UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/place-checking-customisation/6723/9 "2023-03-11T11:36:58Z")
Indeed. I’ve switched it off & will see how I get on.