Hi Rick, After much playing with my river and mountain names, I decided that they would work just fine as city names rather than in the address area. I too have gone through my whole file and entered County on the long line, and Co. on the short fields. The reports now make a lot more sense and there is no ambiguity if I forgot commas at 2 a.m.
I love this program. The user group should be counted amongst its features and benefits. Thanks to all of you for the great discussion. Dan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Rick > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] City and County Abbreviations. > > > Thanks, Jim, Dan, and Jonathan, > > Excellent points made. Thankfully I have diligently been > adding "county" to county names, suspecting that states that > have same names for cities and counties could be confusing > figuring out which one was referenced if commas were > forgotten. I've been using the geo locator to verify that > places exist and adding county if I choose to select what is > presented for a match. I also agree that it would be > wonderful if this were a feature, and a feature of > "expand/contract". I thought of using a search and replace > for contracting county, but hadn't looked into whether or not > it might replace or mistake the Co abbreviation from military > references to Company H, etc. > > The geo location feature has proven to be helpful, found lots > of location names need to be researched because they don't > exist, or at least not in the present. Does the geo locator > handle historic names, places that have had names changed? > There are people in my location list who were born in > counties that have since changed names and the county > verifier works well at catching those, but what about the geo > locator and historic names? > > Is there any place that anyone recommends for researching > historic names and dates they existed? Is it ok to ask these > questions here or do I need to stick more closely to Legacy > features questions? > > In response to entering location names like cemetery, church, > etc. I have been using the hyphen for all the reasons > mentioned prior. If you stick with the 4 comma standard you > will be less confused and less apt to enter the wrong number > of commas or less apt to make a mistake counting out to comma > place number nine if all the other fields are blank. It's > easy enough to make a mistake with 4 field places. I also put > the special location after the city so that the master > location list places all the city listings together with the > special locations after the city. Otherwise, a sort by city > is useless. > > In response to the problem of having all these extra commas > in gedcom outputs, wouldn't you want the commas there, too, > so that the new user of the gedcom would also be able to > distinguish between city and county names for states that > have counties and cities with the same name? Is the 4 field > not a standard in genealogy (I am pretty new in regards to > proper genealogy and am learning as I go...)? If the 4 field > is not actually a standard, then, again to reiterate, the > word "County" needs to be entered after every single county > name or portions of your location data are likely to be > worthless to the person receiving the gedcom... > > Thanks again, > Rick > > > From: "Jim Winfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] City and County Abbreviations. > > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 06:41:25 -0500 > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Rick, > > > > Originally I set up Legacy without using the word "county". > Problem > > comes up when you have locations with county names missing > or with no > > city involved AND you select to drop leading commas in > reports, etc. > > Now you have no idea if Cook, Illinois, USA is a town or > county name. > > I added "county" for ALL counties. Works a lot better. > > > > Jim > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 2:51 AM > > Subject: [LegacyUG] City and County Abbreviations. > > > > > > | I notice that the abbreviations Twp for Township, and Co > for County, > > | are used quite a bit by many people. But in Legacy's Geo > Location > > | List, the word county is never added to the county name, > and these > > | two words are > > never > > | abbreviated when using the expand/contract feature in the > > location master > > | list. Should the word county not be used? Should words like > > | county, township, etc., not be abbreviated? > > | > > | Thanks, > > | Rick > > | > > | Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > > | http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > | > > | To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > > | > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniaco rp.com > | / > | > | To unsubscribe please visit: > | http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< LEGACY >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > From: "Rodney Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LegacyUG] GEDCOM not Exporting all Events > Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 11:51:12 -0000 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am trying to export all Events to GED 5.5, but find that my > "Residence" event is always missed whilst other events are exported. > Anyone have any ideas please? Legacy Deluxe, 22 Feb 2004 version. > > -- > Rodney HALL > Heywood, Lancashire > Sauviter sed fortiter > Agreeably but powerfully > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://rmhh.co.uk/ > http://rmhh.org.uk/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
