Genealogy from the perspective of a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon, LDS)

Saturday, December 2, 2017

Standard Finder or Place Research is still on FamilySearch

https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/

The FamilySearch.org Standard Finder, also known as Place Research, is still on the website although you might have to search for a while to find a link. If the Standard Finder wasn't so hard to find, it would be an excellent reference site for illustrating the standard place names implemented by the FamilySearch.org website. Illustrated above is a search for the place name, "Colombia." The long list of responses indicates the popularity of this name for places around the Americas. Here is the detail page for Colombia as a country name.

https://www.familysearch.org/research/places/place/131?name=Colombia&advanced=false

Here is a screenshot of a list of the country name in different languages.


The web page contains a detailed explanation of the Standard Finder application. Quoting from the about Place Research page:
Place Research is a FamilySearch application which provides access to standardized information about locations. This information is used by several FamilySearch applications to assist researchers in searching for exact spellings, checking whether locations exist, as well as determining alternate name spellings/variants to expand research.
This is not a resource that immediately seems useful until you work with it a bit and explore the many options. 

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