There is no right or wrong way to enter locations. To make use of all the sorting options in Legacy, you do need to use four places or replace missing ones with extra commas.
Many Legacy users do not adhere to such strictures, using fewer or more than four places in their locations. You can still sort from left to right or from right to left, but cannot sort by county, for example. Also, there are many locations in the US which do not have four places in their legal locations, and have the same problem. There are probably hundreds of posts about this in the archives, with passionate opinions and nasty personal attacks on promoters of one option or the other. But then, all lists have posters who do not like it when someone disagrees with them. Only you can decide if you need to sort locations in more than the L to R and R to L options. Legacy's great advantage over other programs is the ability to use it the way you want to use it. That being said, some of the bells and whistles may not work if you do not use it exactly as it has been structured, something that is especially true with sorting functions. Only you can decide if you need to sort locations in more than the L to R and R to L options. CE From: ccliff...@pmcnet.ca To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Rules for Entering Place Names in England and Canada Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 09:27:05 -0600 I am getting confused about entering place names for countries other than the United States. About 95% of my ancestors are from England, the remainder from Canada. Do the same rules apply here for these countries and do I need to add the comma(s) for unknown fields in order for searches to work properly? Should every place name have four fields? For instance, in England, would the order be City, Parish, County, Country? I have tried using a gazetteer, but only districts are mentioned, not parishes. Would I use the district name instead? There are no parishes or counties for my Canadian place names and so do I leave that field blank and add a comma? Or should I use community boundaries, for instance, St. Boniface [community], Winnipeg [city], Manitoba [ province], Canada [country], the order being smallest to largest? I thought I had this straight in my head, but find I am becoming more and more confused as I edit my tree and I am concerned that I may be entering everything wrong. Thanks for any suggestions. Christine Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
