I am still unsettled about what to do with names of cemeteries, hospitals, churches, etc (hereafter called special location names).
I've never found a real standard for this. I think you have to ponder it long and hard, making decisions about what to put in events and what to put in locations.
Here are some examples of what I want to enter:
Evergreen Memorial Park, McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon St. Vincents Hospital, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
See my solution later.
Unfortunately, Legacy does not play well with this "standard". In Legacy, we are supposed to enter City, County, State, Country, using extra commas where certain elements are unknown...
I don't think that Legacy requires you to use those and only those four fields. You can define a Special Place field and use that too, can you not?
I kind of like Jim's suggested workaround, in which special locations are entered after the country.
That's one good way of doing it.
Another response suggested attaching the special place to the City with a hyphen. I think that's a good way of doing it too.
For myself, I've decided on putting the special place in parentheses after the City, which is pretty much the same as using a hyphen. In your examples this would be:
McMinnville (Evergreen Memorial Park), Yamhill County, Oregon Portland (St. Vincents Hospital), Multnomah County, Oregon
I would always add ", United States" to the end of either of those.
My reasoning for using Locations with Special Places in parentheses after the City:
1. I don't use events for locations. In a database sense, repeatedly storing something that gets repeated many times over (an event) is bad. For example, if you use events to specify cemeteries and want to add some information about a particular cemetery, where are you going to put that information? You need to add it to the event for each person who uses that cemetery.
2. I don't use the solution that separates a Special Place with a comma because the vast majority of my Locations do not have a Special Place with them; that would require me to include an extra comma in the majority of cases.
3. I don't use the solution that places the special place after the Country because the special place is almost certainly most closely related to the City and not the County, State, or Country.
4. I use parentheses because they provide both an opening and closing symbol around the Special Place where the hyphen only provides an opening symbol. I believe others may make the opposite choice because the hyphen is less intrusive.
This is certainly not an exhaustive list of what you might consider! Good luck.
-- Dennis Nichols
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