Good reminder Ron!

I live in Redmond, Washington, United States, abbreviated as Redmond, WA, USA.

There's a Redmond in Western Australia, also abbreviated WA

USA can also stand for Union of South Africa

Full names are always better than abbreviations!


Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree



On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Ron Ferguson
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Michele,
>
> Please consider that should you ever wish you publish, abbreviations instead
> of full locations can be at best be meaningless, and perhaps actually
> misleading for those not from the country, or even the general area to which
> the location may refer. Would you understand, for example, the Chapman codes
> for England?
>
> Ron Ferguson
> http://www.fergys.co.uk/


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