Cheri, I tend to abbreviate county to co. but spell out the state and most every thing else because I'm often handing a report to someone with an interest in, but no experience in geneaolgy. If they want to pick up and go on with the research then it is clear which county to look for more records. My own notes are mostly abbreviations
Eric E On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > 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." -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
