Rules depend on whether or not you're planning on joining a lineage society or uploading your data to FamilySearch. Otherwise, just be consistent for your own sanity <g>.
FamilySearch has specific requirements at https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Begin_Your_Genealogy_Quest#Recording_Locations Recording Locations - *To record a location, start from the smallest entity to the largest* such as city, county, state, country. - For a person born in the USA, an example would be:*Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States*. - If a person was not born in a city and you know the county, you might record just the county and state: *Cook, Illinois, United States*. - If you only know the state, you will record: *Illinois, United States*. - If you only know the country you will record: "United States". - In other parts of the world, locations may be: City, Province, Country. For example: *Chester, Cheshire, England* or *Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico*. [image: Html7.jpg] <https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/File:Html7.jpg> - As you type in the location, you will see a menu to select your location. This feature is to keep locations in a standard format to facilitate matches with similar names with the same associated locations. - *Record the location as shown on the earliest record you have of the event*. Many times the place where a birth took place is in a different county or province today and in some cases even in a different country! For example, a person may have been born in a town which is in Poland today, but the town may have been part of the Kingdom of Prussia when the event took place. Boundary lines change over time in many parts of the United States as well as the rest of the world. Debbie, I'm in DAR, and always used commas when entering locations in the applications. Is the "no commas" something new? Sherry On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 10:54 AM Debbie Jorgenson <queenshakenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it is a personal preference and whatever you decide, stick to it. > I started out typing the word County as I had found in Iowa we have Des > Moines (city) and Des Moines County, just as an example. Then I was told to > never type the word County or the abbreviation Co. for county so I went in > and deleted all the word "County", leaving my locations Des Moines, Polk, > Iowa, United States. I have since learned that many in my Legacy User's > Group use the word County in their location places. > > The Daughters of the American Revolution, on their applications for > admittance, instruct applicants to list locations as: Des Moines Polk Co IA > (no periods of commans and using the abbreviation Co for the word county). > > Debbie > > On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 6:36 AM Pete <pete.bea...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I am vacillating on the standardization of Irish Locations and asking for >> comments/thoughts on using: >> "County" or "Co." as a prefix to specifying the County portion of the >> location. I know the "Standard" using is "County". >> Does it really make difference? I want to make sure that all locations >> are >> consistant. >> Pete >> >
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