Cynthia wrote:
> 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.
Thanks Cynthia for confirming to me just what a legend I am
in my own mind !!! ;-))
Years ago I decided that abbreviations are Evil!
I decided to stop using them in my Genealogy files and did the conversion
process you are now doing. It had just occurred to me that whatever
abbreviations one uses imposes more work on any subsequent users of
one's file. Yeah, I know, use the US standard Postal Code abbreviations.
Well not everybody knows what they are and they may overlap as you
point out with other places in the world. And who knows if people will
know what the standard postal code is in 200 years or if people of that time
will know that's what we were using now!
The only exception to that is when I have a source who cites an abbreviation
that I don't know what it means. Then I just leave things exactly as I
found
them but IMO N.Y. N.Y, should be written as New York, New York.
jr
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