On 2010/03/10 02:28, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Mike, my point was/is that genealogists everywhere would/should recognise > them, but the proverbial man in the street may not, as they are not the > abbreviations commonly used by him. Lancashire: Lancs; Yorkshire: Yorks; > Hampshire: Hants; etc. etc.
That's true, but the abbreviations are widely used, on both sides of the Great Watery Divide. My preference is to use full names in Long locations and the Chapman codes in the Short versions. In fact, checking on one or two Long ones, shows that I also make use of the long-used GPO abbreviations for county names. I can't think of any other term to denominate the shortened county names, so GPO will have to do. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
