I agree with La Nell's reasoning for keeping in the county names (I keep
mine in the long and short versions), and I also respect David's desire to
keep locations short for on-screen viewing.
One thing to keep in mind - short locations don't export via gedcom (or at
least no one has said anything to the contrary from my earlier post).
Therefore, they won't post that way to the web.
I use standardized 4 place-holder long location names like: "Bainbridge,
Decatur County, Georgia, USA" and " , Decatur County, Georgia, USA (when no
city applies)," but I have decided to shorten my short locations to
"Bainbridge, Decatur Co., GA," and "Decatur Co., GA," respectively, so they
are short enough to fit nicely on the few pedigree chart prints I
periodically need.
I export the long location names via gedcom for use in my web site. I don't
like the pesky place-holder commas, but I do like the sorting structure they
provide within Legacy. If I ever try to use Legacy to do a report that
reads well, I'll be in trouble, but for a database-type web site, it's
tolerable for now to have the long names.
If anyone knows how to get the short names to export via gedcom though,
please fill the rest of us in!
Thanks,
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Cobb County, Georgia, USA (my long location!)
www.roots2buds.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] eliminating county in reports
Evening La Nell,
I appreciate your input, but I definitely want to (in some circumstances)
remove portions of the location comma-delimited-string so that I can be
better display these locations on my Legacy screens.
I am not a professional genealogist, so I don't have the concerns that you
mentioned. I always use short location names for Legacy screen display
purposes (on my own machine) but do not export or use the short-location
format for reports.
Guess I will close this request since it appears that Legacy will not do
what I need it to do.
Thanks to all who offered suggestions and/or help. I appreciate it.
David
La Nell Shores wrote:
Please, don't take the county name out of the short location. Take out
the
work "County," shorten Nevada to NV, remove USA and shorten the word
Cemetery to Cem. BUT leave in the county name. You have no idea how
frustrating it is to get a gedcom or find locations on the internet that
leave out the county name. Often a state will have more than one town or
cemetery with the same name and many states have a town and a county by
the
same name. Remember, you are preparing your information for other
researchers, family members and family that is to come in future
generations. Keep locations where there can be NO guesswork as to the
exact
location. Just my 2 cents worth, La Nell
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] eliminating county in reports
Hi Debbie,
Unfortunately I didn't make my first post clear as to what I wanted to
do:
1) I have a location string such as Local Cemetery, Great Town, BIG
PRAIRIE COUNTY, Nevada, USA
2) For the Location - short string I want to end up with Local Cemetery,
Great Town, Nevada, USA
In other words I would like to be able to pick out any of the comma
delimited location parts and delete just that location part.
I have been able to search and replace the "COUNTY" problem but I still
find that my Short-Location comma delimited string is still <to long>
David
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