As an American I concur with your train of thought, but have been asking questions recently on how to record British locations. My 2000 atlas shows 8 counties in Wales, and my 1975 atlas shows 13. (Since Lancashire is in both books, need other example.) Also, 2000 Northern Ireland 26 districts, 1975 7. Which is simplfied? Authentic? Are most Brits changing the traditional counties to what ever the legislature decides to do this year.??? Thank you for reading. Rich in LA CA
-----Original Message----- From: Mary Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Dec 3, 2004 1:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations outside USA Hi, Jack Well I go the other way with UK addresses. I don't think any comma is meaningless, and I don't restrict myself to 4 fields.. For the UK example given by John Murray, I would enter 33, Worsley Street, Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire, England This has the huge benefit of sorting down to the street number if you Reverse Sort the Master Location List. Occasionally I will do this reverse sort, it often throws up un-noticed links, eg people living nearby might be witnesses, or distant relatives. As I never share my data by gedcom, I don't have to worry about compatibility. :-) Regards, Mary Young www.cmy.org.uk On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:22:26 -0000, Jack Earnshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron, > I don't believe that many people in the UK (or other countries) would > wish to insert that extra comma between town/city and county. It looks > meaningless on any report produced. OK that is how the Geo database holds > it, but that doesn't make it correct, just reinforces that the database is > US centric. > > Maybe I am breaking hallowed rules, but for UK locations I use village, > town, county, country or town, county, country. Of course that means I can't > easily find all locations in villages around a larger town and would welcome > suggestions for improving the ability to search - but I hate adding > meaningless commas! > > Jack 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 Rich in LA 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
