Does anyone know if Legacy will have a session at the National meeting in Chicago in June? JEB
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cynthia Russell Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Use of ENGLISH and abbreviations in genealogy programs When I attended the National Genealogical Society Conference in Nashville, Tennessee last year, I took the Legacy session. There I learned that all of the 2 letter state abbreviations should all be spelled out for posterity, along with any other abbreviations. I am still correcting some of my master lists now! I wish I had known this before I started transcribing all of the records, especially census records. It is preferred to spell out all abbreviations. One such example would be CA which = both California, as a state in the United States of America and also = Canada, our neighbor to the north. Cynthia N. Russell Traverse City, Michigan, where it is still snowing! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Holmes Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 8:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Use ENGLISH I find that amongst the most confusing acronyms is the almost instance that our USA (sorry United States of America) based posters use the 2 letter United States Postal Service abbreviations for the names of very proud states in their nation. As yet I don't have any tree members that chose to go to /were sent to the new world so I just ignore most of the post even when it includes one of the names I'm interested in. Incidentally was born in Lincs went to Leics to live but visited my uncles in Warks, Yorks, Salop & Herts before my parents & I moved to WA then SA but have visited Qld and have frunds un Un Zud and Soth Efrika. Off my soap box now! Peter Holmes Western Australia [HOLMES (Witham on the Hill, Pinchbeck, Donington and then Leicestershire), DAVISON (Donington), CRAGG (Leicestershire & Nottinghamshire), RYLOTT & WITHERINGTON (Gosberton, Gosberton Clough)] [Villages are in Lincolnshire] Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
