Well Fran, while we were thinking along the same lines up to now, it looks
like we must both reconsider rethinking on the use of maybe spelling out for
anyone outside the US (the colonies). I think I would even add in inner
D.C. community names. In example:
John Smith
1234 Harrington Blvd NW
Georgetown, Washington
District of Columbia, U.S.A.
or this:
John Smith
1234 Harrington Blvd NW
Washington District of Columbia, U.S.A.
or at least this:
John Smith
1234 Harrington Blvd NW
Washington D.C., U.S.A.
This way there's no possible way it could be misconstrued as another place
or country. I think the key is in the "U.S.A." I mean, when we in the
states enter an address for say, Germany, it's more like:
Johann Schmidt
1234 Friedrich Strasse
Stuttgart, Rhein, Germany
or something like that. Bear in mind, this is not an actual address...
<grin> But we should always enter the country in the address, at least I
do.
Joseph
P.S. Gee, I'm really learning things today. <GRIN>
From ronald ferguson
To someone from England "Washington D.C." could easily be taken as
Washington County Durham - and yes there is one!
Ron Ferguson
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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:11:42 -0500
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] District of Columbia
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
It has no county and it has no state. Just ask anyone who lives there --
no voting representation in Congress although we do have a vote in the
presidential elections for the past 35 years or thereabouts.
It is a city in a district in the United States. It is unlike all other
US locations. I enter it Washington, DC. If you want to spell it out, it
is Washington, District of Columbia. I don't put USA in any of my US
locations, but if I were outside the United States, I would enter
Washington, DC, USA.
Adding extra commas won't hurt, I suppose, since you can eliminate them
in printing reports.
Crockett wrote:
I can understand your logic, Joseph, but don’t know what a postal
worker in Australia would make of a letter addressed like that! If he
was reasonably intelligent he would put it in the bag going to the
USA, I guess.
Jennifer
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*Joseph (Ragweed)
*Sent:* Saturday, 26 January 2008 12:01 AM
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*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] District of Columbia
We could use USA or United States for any address which is in the 50
states. However, I don't think it's in any way a part of an address of
a district. For instance, the "Virgin Islands".... I don't believe
they can lay claim to the USA part for their address.
Addresses in "districts" are not like addresses in the States.
Washington is a district called Columbia.
I lived only 75 miles from there and no one ever attached USA (just a
zip) to Washington D.C.
*From:* Heather Stovold
Well, I would do something like
Washington, , District of Columbia, United States
I don't know if there is a county or not.
On Jan 24, 2008 6:22 PM, > > wrote:
How should District of Columbia for Washington, D.C. be sited? City,
County, State, USA???
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