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 Proper use of the diacritics can be found in the [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=localitysearch&columns=*,0,0 Place Search] of the FamilySearch Catalog.
-===County, Parish, Canton, Region, Department===
-These jurisdiction designations should not be included in any of the locality page titles.
-:'''''Exceptions:''''' United States, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Chile, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Bolivia, Costa Rica
 ===Country Name vs. Nationality ===
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 It is often the case that the same geographic place-name will apply to more than one place, or to a place and to other things of interest to genealogists such as a tribe or language; in either case a disambiguation page will be necessary and the articles about locations need to be more specific by adding all jurisdictions to the title. See [[FamilySearch Wiki:Disambiguation]].
-== Administrative sub-divisions  ==
-Names of classes of places should follow English grammar rules. In particular, when dealing with administrative subdivisions, we write of "United States counties" and "Cook County, Illinois," or of "Russian oblasts" and the "Moscow Oblast," but we use "Chinese and Roman provinces," not "Chinese sheng" or "Roman provinciae."
 == Special Guidelines by Country  ==

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