I missed that if anyone was saying you *must* do it a certain way. But I will say this unequivocally: If you expect to get a decent alphabetical sorting mechanism for the place name divisions you use in reports, then you*/_must be consistent with whatever divisions you decide_/*. The standard for the United States and Canada (city, county, state or province, country) -- or the reverse if sorting right to left -- does work well enough for us, even in Europe. For example, are not the .....shires in England roughly equivalent to our counties, or close enough to use the county position for the ...shires? Jerry Boor, MerriamFamilyTree.org
On 11/4/2014 1:58 PM, CE WOOD wrote: > Locations throughout Europe are a problem. Normandy, Anjou, Burgundy, > Aquitaine, et alia, were all separate countries at one time. Italy, > Spain, the Holy Roman Empire are even more confusing! The Norse > countries, Lorraine, Alsace, Bavaria, Flanders. I could go on, but the > point is boundaries change all the time - even now. Whether you add > France to Alsace, whether you add Germany to Alsace, whether you keep > it as a separate country, or whatever, is *_your_ *choice. What you > put in France today was once its own country, part of another country, > part of a no longer existing kingdom, or whatever. > > Computer programs do not accommodate political shifts. > > > > CE > > > From: bearjerca...@gmail.com > > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Rules for Entering Place Names in England > and Canada > > Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 12:41:32 -0500 > > > > Hi Jenny. You kinda lost me on that explanation. Do you mean that if > > you are not sure of the country (i.e., Wales or England?), you just > > don't put the country in your place name field at all? I'm confused, > > but since sort order is paramount to me, if I had two choices for > > country, I guess I would choose one and opt for an alternate place name > > with the other country, with appropriate notations. Maybe I > > misunderstood what you are saying. Jerry Boor, MerriamFamilyTree.org > > > > On 11/4/2014 7:12 AM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > > > On 02/11/2014 17:26, gen_quest wrote: > > >> If you ony know the registration district from bmd indices then enter > > >> that followed by the county and country. > > > Adding the county (and even the country) can be problematical. Many > > > Civil Registration Districts incorporated Civil Parishes which were in > > > adjacent counties. To take one example, the RD of Wrexham (Wrexham is > > > and was in the Wales) included the sub-districts of Hope in > Flintshire, > > > Wales, Malpas in Cheshire, England and Ruabon in Denbighshire, Wales. > > > > > > In order not to mislead or create confusion, I never include the > County > > > or Country in a Location which is just a Registration District. > > > 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
