If you want/need to use other than the 4 "standard for the USA" levels the program will accept up to 9 levels separated by commas.
Someone in this thread suggested that 4 levels also apply to Canada. That is not necessarily true and is totally unnecessary for finding vital records of Birth, Death Marriage (BMD). In Canada those records are centralized at the Provincial level once civil registration of those events started (the date varies by province). Before civil registrations started the principal BMD records are from church records and the location of those records varies by time period, denomination etc. In USA research the specification of a county is vital to finding the location of records since civil registrations of BMD are recorded at the County level, usually the county courthouse. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 20/04/2012 11:09 AM, Michele Lewis wrote: > 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 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
