Canada has Provinces that use Counties and Provinces that use Jurisdictions or Regions, and some use a combination or Districts with a number (These are nearly impossible to find without a legal document most of which don't include it anyway). What I always try to do is use the most complete form I can making sure that the city/town is in the correct place, followed by the county if there is one, the province, and country. I use commas where a designation is either non-existant or unknown. Thus the city of Edmonton in the Province of Alberta, would look like: Edmonton, , Alberta, Canada if it were after 1905 and Edmonton, , Alberta, British Empire OR Edmonton, , Alberta, , since Alberta wasn't part of Canada prior to this. Other Provinces are similar and Counties change. B.C. doesn't use counties, Alberta uses a combination depending on where and when, Canad didn't exist before 1 Jul 1867 and some provinces joined later. It can be confusing. As for Washington, DC, I use: Washington, , District of Columbia, United States unless the time frame was when it had a county then I enter the County instead of the place keeper "," . I always spell out United States never using USA. But I also don't use it prior to the date that a State was part of the union. I always attempt to keep all locations as they were at the event time. Took me 3 weeks of constant work to fix all my locations the best I could.
Bev. March Calgary, Ab, Canada Many locations in the U.S. don't fit into the 4 field convention, including: New York City, Kings County (Borough of Brooklyn), New York, USA New York City, New York County (Borough of Manhattan), New York, USA New York City, Queens County (Borough of Queens), New York, USA New York City, Bronx County (Borough of The Bronx), New York, USA New York City, Richmond County (Borough of Staten Island), New York, USA The City and County of San Francisco, California, USA Saint Louis, Missouri, USA (independent city, no county) and numerous independent cities in Virginia John S. Adams Ventura, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 00:12:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] proper format for Washington, DC From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Great idea, Elizabeth, thank you!! JLB, How do you handle it when you've got something like London, which I think is in more than one county? I've got some London, Middlesex County locations. I think part of Middlesex is outside of London. Also, as in the US, I imagine some Middlesex County locations have a London address even though they're outside the corporate limits of London. Pat On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Eliz Hanebury <[email protected]> wrote: Richmond (Independent city) Virginia <G> 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
