And I need 5 locations, because I have to include street addresses. In
a city of 2 million, just the city, county, state, country is not nearly
accurate enough.
Elizabeth C
Ron Goodwin wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> I would prefer an option in Legacy that would allow users to use 3 or 4 place
> locations depending on the country they are entering information on.
>
> I understand that you prefer and only use 3 place locations, so how would you
> handle the United States locations? I have relatives in Canada, England,
> Australia as well as the United States and well 3 place locations fit most
> countries I have some locations within several States within the USA where
> the same town name appears more that once within the same State and the only
> way to identify the correct location is by using the County identifier.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Ron
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: March 8, 2010 18:55
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events
>
> Carol,
>
> It is not a "standard location format" if you are British, or of many, many
> other nationalities. We abandoned standardisation before it was invented, on
> the basis that is does not work, will not work, and conflicts with our
> freedom of expression.
>
> My location at one time was "Glossop, Derbyshire, England". The problem is,
> as you can see, there aint 4 fields, nor is there anywhere where I can stick
> a comma (not that I would, I hate them, except when used correctly in
> English). I could also go to the other extreme, should you so wish, where
> the very old (like before my time) location of the place where I lived was
> "Winton, Barton upon Irwell, Eccles, Hundred of Salford, Lancashire,
> England", where Winton is a Hamlet, Barton upon Irwell: a Township, Eccles:
> a Parish, Hundred of Salford: the Hundred, Lancashire: the County and
> England: Country.
>
> Please bare in mind that some countries had locations nearly 2000 years ago,
> and most of ours were included in the Doomsday Book cir. 1086. You may care
> to visit my blog at http://bit.ly/8VDqTc, which was reprinted by World Vital
> Records btw. for more details.
>
> I also note that in the new transcriptions for their new database Family
> Search are now starting use use correct English locations (more or less).
> There's hope yet!
>
> Ron Ferguson
>
>
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