Describing where an event took place consists of two parts: the place (the town or village) and the address (the specific house, farm, or street). Pedigree Forge follows this convention and provides both fields when editing facts. See Place vs address for details.
The place is shown on charts and in most reports, while the address typically appears only in detailed reports.
The recommended format is the town or village, a comma, then the county or region:
Ashford, Kent
You can also include the country:
Ashford, Kent, England
Pedigree Forge knows that Kent is in England and can infer the country, so the shorter form is sufficient. Both forms are accepted and will be kept as you enter them.
Note — Just entering the town name alone (e.g. "Ashford") is usually not sufficient because there may be more than one place with that name in the same country.
Pedigree Forge has a built-in database of places (currently covering England, Scotland, and Wales) and suggests matches as you type. Once you use a recognised place, it becomes the top suggestion for that stem during the current session. If a place is not in the database, it appears in red.
When a county contains more than one place with the same name, a long-standing local convention often provides a fuller version — for example, "Goodnestone-next-Wingham" and "Goodnestone-next-Faversham" in Kent. Choose the unambiguous name in these cases.
Where no local convention exists, Pedigree Forge uses a square-bracket identifier to distinguish them internally — for example, "Blackwater [mainland], Hampshire" and "Blackwater [IoW], Hampshire". The bracketed text is shown only in the user interface and omitted from charts and reports.