1) This is the standard of the largest repository in the world, the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, which is considered the authority when it comes to genealogical research 2) Standardizing your locations makes searching easier, sharing data easier, and makes your research look more professional
HOWEVER, the standard 4 place locations does not work for every country. You CAN standardize these places to 4 fields using the Geocode BUT if you do that you will lose some levels of jurisdiction for those countries that have more than 4. What I do for other countries is I try to standardize all of the locations within that country to the same number of location fields Michele From: Marg Strong [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 10:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) 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 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
