Good point, Cheri.
My standard location will be like this:
São Roque, Pico, Açores
I don't use abbreviations and I don't state Portugal after Açores. I don't use Azores.
For a city with more than one freguesia:
São Pedro, Angra, Terceira, Açores
For a location on the continent:
Mercês, Lisboa, Portugal
Of course, if I don't know the exact freguesia, it might be:
Angra, Terceira, Açores
Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Açores
I don't pay attention to concelhos, unless that is how they are so far known.
Sometimes the birthplace is listed as "desta concelho" and if it's a record from the Angra concelho, I enter them as:
Concelho de Angra, Terceira, Açores
Once I find the exact freguesia, I change it over to the above format:
Doze Ribeiras, Terceira, Açores
For USA locations, I always include the county:
Oakland, Alameda County, California
I don't include United States of America. But if I know they only came from the USA, then I will list them as:
United Stated of America
Sometimes in the records when a person is living currently elsewhere then the baptism is taking place, they might be said to be living in America do Norte (United States) or America do Sul (South America).
For locations in Brasil, (I don't write Brazil, since they call it Brasil), I write:
Santa Ana, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
But people from Brasil will abbreviate states like:
Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil
Niterói - RJ - Brasil
Doug da Rocha Holmes
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
Sacramento, California
Pico & Terceira Genealogist
916-550-1618
---------- Original Message --------
Subject: [AZORES-Genealogy] Entering your places in your genealogy
program
From: Cheri Mello <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, March 10, 2013 9:20 am
To: Azores Genealogy <[email protected]>
What do most of you people do for this? You are entering a birth, baptism, marriage, death. It doesn't matter. Your screen opens up and asks for the place where this event happened. My program has the following fields:
Detail
City
County
State
Country
Detail = the church, but I use it only if there is more than 1 church in that freguesia (Sao Miguel Arcanjo & Sao Pedro are both in Vila Franca).
City = freguesia
County = I put the island there. I know it's closer to the concelho, but before the CCA came online, the concelho didn't matter. I pulled the roll of film for my freguesia.
State = I put Azores there
Country = Portugal
I wouldn't too much work to put the county as the concelho and put the state as Sao Miguel, Azores. But in sharing Gedcoms, we probably should start to be consistent with each other.
And I DO NOT abbreviate any more. Or not in the places (in my side notes I abbreviate). SM? What's that? Santa Maria or Sao Miguel? F? Faial or Flores?? You want your great-grandkids to inherit this and as adults they pull it out and can't figure out your abbreviations?
So how do all of you fill in your place fields?
--
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."
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected].
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
