Alan, That is interesting to know. I am not LDS so I don't have access to the New Family Search yet. I use the standard 4 place markers for US locations but I also have a lot of foreign locations as well. For Germany I use 3, for Poland I use 4. I keep it standard within each country. I still say consistency is the most important. It makes your work look more professional. It also makes it easier to share info back and forth. Legacy is set up for 4 place markers which is the US standard. The geo locations and searches rely on the 4 place markers. If everyone out there is doing something completely different then it just muddies everything up.
NOTE: It isn't just locations! It is the same thing with names and with dates! Some people put women under their MARRIED name which is not the standard. Some people do their dates backwards and use only numbers which really messes other people up. Locations are no different. Another issue with locations is what we recently talked about, recording the location as it was at the time the event occurred. There are people that don't do that. If they share their info (upload it to Family Search for example), it just makes their stuff not credible and muddies everything up. Michele -----Original Message----- From: Alan Pereira Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations New Family Search lets you store an address outside that 4 field convention - I do it all the time. I fully endorse Ron Ferguson's view on locations. Alan Pereira 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
