Mary, I have from time to time thought about putting a comma after the house name/number and, apart from the very large number of entries which would need to be changed one other thing has put me off. With my current format the Legacy/MS mapping facility works well, but I wonder if the additional comma will affect this. Perhaps you could advise.
Ron Ferguson -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mary Young" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2010 2:02 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Places > On 13 September 2010 18:02, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> In case you don't know, I am English, and in my long time experience the >> so >> called "four field convention" which encourages one to use doesn't work >> for >> us, so forget it. Secondly, using the Address Book means that including >> them >> in reports is restricted, and in my view is situated inappropriately. >> Having >> got that off my chest, I recommend that you use the British address >> format >> for the place and put iit in the Location Field, and I find it best to >> include the house/road in that field so that it looks like: >> >> 2 Park Road, Winton, Eccles, Salford, Lancashire, England. > > I wholeheartedly agree with Ron, forget the "four field convention" it > doesn't work for us Scots either :-) > My only small difference - I put a comma after the house number, so > the "right-to-left" sorting works 100%. > > e.g. without the comma: > 15 Park Road > 18 Western Terrace > 26 Dreadlocks Street > 37 Park Road > > > with the comma: > Dreadlocks Street, 26 > Park Road, 15 > Park Road, 37 > Western Terrace, 18 > > My extended family were in Glasgow Govan over 60 years, and this > sorting by street and then number has been an eye-opener. I can spot > where a man has married "the girl next door" or a family has moved > across the street into a bigger flat. > > -- Mary Young 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
