Ron,
As a suggestion, you might want to use "The Family History Library Catalog" at http://www.familysearch.org which lists Kiel in the following way:

Germany, Preu�en, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
Germany, Preu�en, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel (G�terdistrikt)
Germany, Preu�en, Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel (Stadtkreis)


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Subject: [LegacyUG] Location Entries for Germany
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:32:53 -0500
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Hello list,

I am a new Legacy user and would like some assistance in determining the proper method of entering German location information into Legacy 4.0. In the Basic Data Entry section of the Legacy for Beginners CD Geoff Rasmussen states that there are 4 components used by Legacy for each Location entry: City, County, State, Country with each field separated by a comma.

I have been entering location information such as Kiel, Schelswig-Holstein, Germany which only uses 3 of those positions. Legacy would sort this location entry with Kiel as the city, Schelswig-Holstein as the county, Germany as the state and nothing entered as the country when in fact I believe Schleswig-Holstein should be treated as the state and Germany as the country.

Using that logic I think I should enter the information as:
Kiel,,Schleswig-Holstein, Germany or
Kiel, Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Kiel is the Kreis (district) that Kiel is located in and I would equate that to county and Schlewsig-Holstein as the state in the US.

Using another example for Kreis Plön I think I should enter:
Preetz, Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Am I following the correct logic on how these entries should be made?

Thanks,
Ron Opfer









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