Jerry, I suppose it should really be the United States of America, but as I Brit I always use U.S.A. because, like you, I am sure the rest of the world know where it is, except, perhaps, for some yet to be found tribes living in a rain forest somewhere!!
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 9:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Another template issue Are there any cons to using the abbreviation USA instead of United States? I could do a global replace, I guess, but I started using USA because I thought it was now internationally recognized. I always use Co for County and I do not abbreviate States or Provinces either. --Jerry On 02/17/2012 03:42 PM, Sherry/Support wrote: > I follow Mary Slawson's recommendations of adding "county" only when > the city is unknown. > > Seattle, King, Washington, United States > , King county, Washington, United States > Seattle, , Washington, United States > > > I'm a firm believer in avoiding abbreviations in locations, esp when I > found out someone thought I was from Australia when I signed my email > to a fellow genealogist with a location after my name as: > > Redmond, WA > > There's a Redmond in Western Australia! > > > Geoff worked closed with Elizabeth Shown Mills when creating the > templates and in some cases there were some discrepancies, so the > SourceWriter templates may not always match perfectly..Of course, it > would take her a lot longer to make corrections in her book that it > would for Geoff to correct something in the templates! > > > Thre's a > Sincerely, > Sherry > Technical Support > Legacy Family Tree > > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Paula Ryburn > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Wow, an eye-opener for me. I have not been entering "Co." or "County" >> ... >> just the county name. >> Does this matter if I'm not going to be really publishing my work? (I >> know >> you do publish.) >> On the other hand, I find it hard to believe that EE or people who use EE >> would have trouble with those abbreviations...? >> >> --Paula in Texas 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
