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Why residence event and not Address?

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:The Gramps concept of a Place is a particular location '''''independent of time''''' and is '''''associated with Events'''''.
:Over time, the same Place may have different delivery address information due to language, changing borders and political situation. As illustrated by the [[Places_in_Gramps#Place_names|Leningrad and St. Petersburg example]] detailed in another section of the documentation, many different names may represent the same place. Gramps offers the ''Alternative Names'' tab in the Place Editor, allowing to enter different names for the place. The political and geographic regions to which the place belongs can be recorded using the ''Enclosed By'' tab. [[Places_in_Gramps|Places in Gramps]] can be accessed from many different points in the interface: the [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#Places_Category|Place category]] view, in [[GeographyGramps_{{man version}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#All_places_related_to_Events|relationship to specific Events]] through the [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Categories#Geography_Category|Geography category]] view, as a key attribute within the [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#New_Event_dialog|Event editor]], and from the [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Place_Editor_dialog|Place editor]] are among the most obvious.
Apart from the concept of a ''Place'', an ''Event'' is important here: together, they give context to a defining moment in a person's life. Places can be coupled to Events at a specific date to become a key object in genealogy research. Associating that object with people, families and sources takes genealogy beyond a barren pedigree. They are the foundation of a timeline for the life of a person. And the story of a timeline should answer the basic factual questions of any news-worthy article: who, what, '''''where''''' & when? (Why & how are conclusions that can be argued after establishing those facts.)

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