Cheri I don't abbreviate at all any more. I did at one time use the state abbreviations but then I ran into AZ as Arizona and sometimes people thought it meant the Azores! So, now I write it all out and the computer truncates them itself but it's all there on my screens. I do not, however, write in USA.
Rosemarie ----- Original Message ----- From: Cheri Mello To: Azores Genealogy Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 2:59 PM Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Abbreviations - how far do we go? I know certified genealogists abbreviate nothing. They leave no question as to what they are talking about. In my genealogy program, I don't abbreviate the freguesia, church, island or Azores. I do abbreviate in somewhat in emails. I was abbreviating county (as in Los Angeles Co) and I was abbreviating California as "CA" but "CA" is also Canada, isn't it? I was thinking of changing to California, but CA is in the state field and Canada (I spell out the countries) is in the country field. Which *seems* clear until you do an export/import. I see strange things in the fields when I import people's Gedcoms. I was wondering how far people abbreviate? If anyone found my work, they'd know most of what I had in my program because of the limited abbreviations, but I was thinking of dropping all of them. -- Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
