Badly Recorded Locations

Agreed Peter although I was thinking more of where the county has been omitted or even the parish omitted and all you have is things like "Mill of Somewhere" with no other address details. That in my eyes is a data error as it is fairly meaningless. It should really be at a minimum "Mill of somewhere, some parish, some county" possibly "Mill of somewhere, some parish, some county, some country".

Worse when its in a town and the address is simply recorded as "High Street" with no town name, no county, no nothing. I've seen this in some test data individuals sent to me so it is data people have in their live trees.

Errors like these can be seen in the Locations tab, if the country name isn't a meaningful country it probably means the program couldn't work out which County you'd entered. This is either because it doesn't exist or there is a variation on a name I'd not coded for. In which case I'd be interested to hear about "unidentified counties" so I can fix it for a future version.

 

Indeed but the correct address that should be recorded is "High Street, Iken, Suffolk, England" my point was that I've seen people in that circumstances record the address as "High Street" with no town, no county and no country. Which is very poor record keeping.

 

In one of the villages near where I live the main street is called simply "The Street".

 

However they are still "The street, village name, county name, England" and "The Village, village name, Yorkshire, England". Recording them as JUST "the street" or "the village" in your tree with no village/town/county or something to make it clear where it was is clearly meaningless.