Ron, The benefits I find are ease of use.
If I have many entries for the same town/city ( I am not hung up on what a town is or how big it is I just use common usage) I put Liverpool, , Lancashire, England Liverpool-9 King St, , Lancashire, England Liverpool-St Peter's Church, , Lancashire, England This way when I enter a new Liverpool location I immediately go to Liverpool, , Lancashire, England from there I click on the arrow and can check if I already have an entry for an address for that town. If not I quickly create a new one selecting and editing e.g. Liverpool, , Lancashire, England When I go to the location list I have all my entries for each town together. I have quite a few farm names or farm settlementsso Longtown-Oakbank, , Cumberland, England I use the third position for counties or states whichever is relevant to that country. When I sort I can immediately see e.g. all my Cumberland entries. I use the second position for suburbs in large cities. Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia It works for me. Anne On 27/08/2011 6:07 PM, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Anne, > > I would be interested to learn what you consider to be the benefits of the 4 > field convention. Frankly I cannot really see anything worthwhile for > non-Americans. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > From: Anne Hollingshead > Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 4:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Getting rid of commas > > Then the only way to overcome the problem would be to use an rtf file and > search and replace ", ,". ? > > Is that right ? This can only be done in a few reports though ? > > Can Legacy find a way to solve this problem so that non US users can benefit > from the 4 place system ? > > > > Anne > > On 27/08/2011 1:58 AM, Brian/Support wrote: Jenny, You are correct, the > format option in the reports are only for leading commas not those embedded > within the location. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation > mailto:[email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are > changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please > include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 26/08/2011 6:16 AM, Jenny M > Benson wrote: I may be wrong about this, but to me "leading commas" means > commas at the START of a location, such as ",,New Jersey, USA" or ", > Passaic, New Jersey, USA" so I would not expect either of the options above > to remove commas which indicate that a later element is missing, such as > "Clifton,, New Jersey, USA." > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
