That said, you wouldn't be typing out too many locations anyway because another let down to Ancestris is that the only facts/events that seem available are name, BMD, occupation, and residence (only one residence so you can not enter more than one location a person lived in). So far, the only positive thing about this software is that the place fields (and the name fields, though I don't know how useful this would be in practice) offer a drop down menu of previously used locations so if you have a lot of events in one place, you don't need to type them all out every time. If there is a way to change this setting, like everything in this software, it's not obvious how to do so.
This is a format some people use but not all and there doesn't seem to be a way to change it if you prefer it without all caps. I also noticed that surnames are automatically formatted to be in all caps (shown right). A newcomer who doesn't know this might assume it's better to enter the married name since that is the default here so this could be very misleading and really screw things up for people who don't know better. This is bad form because the standard in genealogy is to name women by their maiden names. Another annoying feature is that when adding a mother, the married name is automatically put into the surname field (shown right).
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