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There are many ways of recording a location. For instance, one person may only include the village, such as ''‘Uiha,'' while someone else may include the name of the island and region, such as ''‘Uiha, Ha’apai, Tonga, Pacific Islands''. | There are many ways of recording a location. For instance, one person may only include the village, such as ''‘Uiha,'' while someone else may include the name of the island and region, such as ''‘Uiha, Ha’apai, Tonga, Pacific Islands''. | ||
TempleReady will only search the''IGI ''for the exact place we have listed. If someone else submitted our ancestor, but did not write the place the way we did, it will not recognize it as a duplicate. If they did not provide a place that is recognized by the ''IGI | TempleReady will only search the ''IGI'' for the exact place we have listed. If someone else submitted our ancestor, but did not write the place the way we did, it will not recognize it as a duplicate. If they did not provide a place that is recognized by the ''IGI'', the record would have been placed in the ''World Miscellaneous region'' of the ''IGI''. | ||
'''To remedy this, we should make sure to select the ''World Miscellaneous ''region as our region and ''All Miscellaneous Countries ''as the country. Also search the' 'Pacific Island''region for each name when manually searching the ''IGI''. For ''Hawaiian''ancestors, we should try using the ''United States ''as our region.'''''<i>If our ancestor had a surname, we can use the Internet site of </i>www.familysearch.org''and choose a ''generic''search. All regions of the ''IGI''as well as ''Ancestral File''and some other Internet sites will be searched. If our ancestor had only one name, this generic search is not available. The computer will ask us for a surname, and if we cannot supply one, the search will not be made.'' | '''To remedy this, we should make sure to select the ''World Miscellaneous ''region as our region and ''All Miscellaneous Countries ''as the country. Also search the' 'Pacific Island''region for each name when manually searching the ''IGI''. For ''Hawaiian''ancestors, we should try using the ''United States ''as our region.'''''<i>If our ancestor had a surname, we can use the Internet site of </i>www.familysearch.org''and choose a ''generic''search. All regions of the ''IGI''as well as ''Ancestral File''and some other Internet sites will be searched. If our ancestor had only one name, this generic search is not available. The computer will ask us for a surname, and if we cannot supply one, the search will not be made.'' | ||
===== The ancestor is part of an ancient royal line ===== | ===== The ancestor is part of an ancient royal line ===== | ||