John, Please see below,
From: John Magyari Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 12:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to document Locations in Europe 5 Fields vs 4 Fields Thanks for everyone's ideas. Some of my Polish time periods use 4 some 5 positions I decided to force all 5 location positions into 4. Having same number of fields helps with sorting. So you believe in having inaccurate records in your file, merely to fit artificial American situations? Ideally if would be nice to specify Number of locations field MAX. Then if entered with less fields specify which fields to become null. ie. MaxPositions = 5, LessPositionOrder if less 2,3if less than MAX ie For Me for Poland city, administration, county, state, country (1,2,3,4,5) If less fields entered enter Nulls city, county, state, country (Null 1 field - admin) city, state, country (Null other 2 fields -admin, county) city, state (Null other 3 fields) state (Null other 4 fields) Absolutely *wrong* This gives no consideration whatsoever to the accurate location as determined by the in country in which the location is placed. This will perpetuate, what has recently been a decreasing trend, of putting square pegs into round holes. Perhaps America should change its way of recording locations? I will use 4 fields, and in the process converted all locations with fewer positions to 4 position system. John, you, of course, can do as you wish, but please do not even hint at forcing your misconceptions onto the rest of us. john On 3/11/2012 4:04 AM, Ron Ferguson wrote: John,  By all means use the American four field standard for American locations, but for other countries use their own formats, normally the way in which they are written.  Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/   From: John Magyari Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 7:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] How to document Locations in Europe 5 Fields vs 4 Fields  Typically for US locations i have ****4 FIELDS City, County, State, Country How do others handle European Countries? For example I have a village in Poland Area 1900's part of Austria Hungary Village, District, Province, Country ****4 FIELDS Lipowiec, Sanok District, Galicia Province, Austria-Hungary Same place in 1940's ****4 FIELDS Lipowiec, Sanok District, Krosno Voivodeship, Poland Almost all places in Current Day Poland 1950's through today *****5 FIELDS City, Gmina, County, Voivodeship, COUNTRY Lipowiec, Dukla Gmina, Krosno County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland and since 2012 *****5 Fields Lipowiec, Jasliska Gmina, Krosno County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland When some locations ideally be 5 FIELDS, do you go back and update those with 4 Fields? With some having 4 some having 5 it's also harder sorting and then viewing similar towns over time periods. thanks, john magyari 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
