Many thanks for your reply. Inserting a comma, so Ss Mary & Eanswythe, Folkestone KEN ENG allows the entry as you suggest (Ss, by the way is used as an abbreviation of the plural Saints, just as St is used for the singular).
Ultimately, my aim is to post the file on the web, once I have reached a certain stage of checking, at which time I will probably use a spreadsheet or relational database.
I do like the way your program works and would certainly have used it, if I were now starting from scratch but there are other issues with the way I have adapted PAF which also do not import well, so it may be too complicated to transfer at this stage.
One possibility, I suppose, would be to export the file from PAF to a spreadsheet and edit it there to remove the anomalies which do not import well, before importing to PAW. Could that be achieved reasonably easily?
Otherwise, it may be simpler to continue to manage the file in PAF and to bite the bullet and either install a Windows partition or buy a cheap laptop, just to run PAF5.
On the place names, while the City/County/State/Country format applies consistently to every type of entry, there are additional levels of data relating to births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials, some of which relate specifically to individuals and which many (most?) people need to include in their data.
For example, for many of my births and deaths I have also entered the address at which the individual was born or died (and the cause of death too, where known)
For baptisms, marriages and burials, I have inserted the name of the church/cemetery
For births, deaths and marriages I have inserted the birth registration district and entry reference (e.g. Elham 2a1234), where applicable
I wonder if it would make sense to allow separate, standard fields, to allow such data to be entered, without increasing the number of standard addresses to be searched on?
One other point which I have noticed is that PAF allows the entry of notes for the marriages, as well as for individuals but marriage notes do not seem to be provided for in your system (the marriage notes seem to be imported as "errata" in the individuals' entries). Such notes allow the entry of data on witnesses, on odd entries in registrations (such as where somebody marries under a different name), etc. It would be possible to include such notes in those of the individuals but, for marriages, that would entail duplication. I wonder whether a provision for importing such notes could be allowed?
I would have no hesitation is recommending to anybody looking for MAC genealogy software that they should consider using PAW.
Thank you again and best wishes,
Neil
