Peggy, This is a question for our American friends, personally I hate " ,"s. Regarding British locations I cannot see they serve any useful purpose, since the 4 field convention does not work, and is not applicable, for our locations in any event.
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Marg Strong Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) Thank you so much for the detailed reply, Ron. That helps explain something that has confused me. Some records show an ancestor as being located in England, while others, use "Great Britain" or "UK" or "United Kingdom". I really need to brush up on the history as the time is coming when I will need to venture further than ancestry.com to find sources. I'm clicking through to your links and bookmarking them to read as soon as I have a spare bit of time. And when I put all this together into a "book" form for family, I want to include history. Knowing the history of the places our ancestor's came from makes them more "real." To me, at least. I haven't found the Geo Location database helpful so far, because if I don't have at least part of a county name, it doesn't give me one or several possibilities, except on rare occasions. Guess I was hoping for an easier way, but so far, I've used a web search for county, if it's in my direct line. The others I leave empty. As I'm working to clean up my location list (Thank Heaven for the "combine" function) I started using the commas to indicate place. I don't really understand why, but it seemed to be the thing recommended. Is there a useful purpose for this? Does it help Gedcom transfers? Or is it useful in Legacy searches? If not, it is a pain because it pops the location to the top of the list and when I combine, I have to scroll up to the top to find the place where I need to combine it. Peggy 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
