Edit Countries: Help

This page presents a list of supported countries and permits adding, deleting, and modifying the descriptions of countries.

The "Pattern" input field is used to limit the displayed list of countries to those whose English name contains the value. For example if you enter "can" only countries whose English name contains "can", for example "Canada" and "American Samoa" are displayed.

If you do a left-button mouse click in the 'ID', 'Name', 'Dialing', or 'Currency' column headers, the table will be resorted based upon the contents of that column.

For each country there is a row in the table containing:

• A two-character mnemonic code, as defined by ISO 3166, used by other tables to identify a country. This field is read-only except on a line for adding a new country.
• The full name of the country in English.
• A Names button to open a dialog to edit the name of the country in other languages. This dialog opens in the right hand side of the same browser window.
• A Statesbutton to open the dialog for editing the list of lower level administrative units within the country, such as provinces and states. This dialog opens in the right hand side of the same browser window.
• A field containing the international dialing code for the country.
• A field containing the ISO 4217 currency code for the official currency of the country. Note that some countries with unstable banking systems use the currency of a more stable neighbour without permission. For example Montenegro and Kosovo use the Euro.
• A button to open a page of links to other genealogical resources for the country.
• A Delete button to delete the country. Although this removes the row from the display it is necessary to click on the Update Database button to actually update the database.

At the bottom of the page there are two buttons:

• The Update Database button applies the changes you have entered on this page into the database. Note that pressing the Enter key while editing any input field also performs this function.
• The Add New Country button adds a new row at the bottom of the table, permitting you to add a country.