Kirsten,
Assuming that you're talking about the Geo Location Database window (which
comes up from "Tools->Geo Location Database..."), it depends! If you enter
the Whatevershire into the "State" box, you'll find that you get a heap of
answers that have no "County", but have "England" as the country. If you
enter Whatevershire into the "County" box, you get a heap of answers that
have "England" as the state and "United Kingdom" as the country. This seems
to tally with the other answer you had about "State" being the "next tier of
government", but the multiple possibilities mean that you can mostly take
your pick. I guess that historically the United Kingdom appeared relatively
recently (so the England version may be technically more accurate) - but I'm
afraid that my knowledge of UK history isn't good enough to know when that
was (despite being from the UK!) and I tend to use UK regardless.
Pete C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirsten Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 4:38 AM
Subject: [LegacyUG] English Counties and Shires
In the Geo Location list, why do English counties show in the state
position
rather than in the county position? Can anyone explain?
And if the only location I have for an individual is "Whatevershire," does
that go in the city, state, or county position?
Kirsten
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