I like to have Co., on the county name. It is really nice when you have a city and county of the same name. So I enter it that way and am done with it <G>
Eliz On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM, 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 > > > > 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
