I was told at one time that you should always use the word "county" following the actual county name anytime you did not have a city to precede it; otherwise, as you stated, one would assume that it was the city name, even if you had the leading commas to separate fields. It was at some sort of conference or class and they said it was helpful to do that as a habit anyway, just to be very clear. I have not done that in the past and have not changed my database to reflect that but I thought it made very good sense. Wouldn't it be nice to simply have fields that are specifically for city or town, parish, county, state, country? Then those inadvertent errors would diminish; a lot of people don't even know to put in the commas to designate a missing field.
Kathy On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Alan Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > The previous genealogy program I used had you put "Co." after the > county name so you had place location of > Little Rock, Pulaski Co., Arkansas, USA > > However in the Legacy training and the Geo Database it does not use or > seam to like the "Co." on the end. Thus output was: Little Rock, > Pulaski, Arkansas, USA > > When I moved to Legacy I pulled "Co." off of everything as I found it > trying to follow the convention. Now in some of my reports and other > things I look back and think it might have been nice to have had the Co. > for the County. > > So my questions are: > > What is the reasoning Legacy does not put them on? > > Are there reasons not to have the Co. on the end? > > I did note in some reading that if you just have the county name then > your are supposed to put "Co." or something on the end so people don't > get confused and think it was a City. So why not allow it all the time. > > Anyone else just force it on? It means you can't use the default lookup > in the Geo Database. It certainly would be something easy to fix and > add as a feature to Legacy to have it put Co. on county names on if it > did not cause problems. > > Is there a research/genealogical reason not to do this? > > Anyone else ever run into this question? > > thoughts? > > thanks > > Alan > > > > > > 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 > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein 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
