I'm sure this has been asked before, but I can never find what I'm searching for in the archives. Is there then a useful purpose for doing this comma thing with Canadian or USA locations? I need to see the reason why it is helpful before changing the rest of my location list. Some locations are unclear as to whether the name is of a town, township, or county which makes it even more difficult.
>________________________________ > From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 10:25 AM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) > >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 > > > > > 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
