Jemima, The Four Field Convention was designed by Americans for America, full stop. It does not work for those of use who live in the UK, which is an alliance of countries. Whenever have you written "England, UK"? If it was anything other than an alliance how could a constituent part (Scotland) propose to leave?
And since when have we had "County, ,England"? There is not, and never has been any layer between our counties and the country. My advice, include our locations, and for that matter those of every country, as they are used by the locals, and not by an artificial construction which was never designed for worldwide use. Furthermore when looking up locations I use a Gazetter published by the country concerned. For us the Geo Locator does gives the wrong answer. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 "ArdenholmeGenealogy" <[email protected]> wrote: >I realise that this is focused on the USA County Verifier but your answer >below, Sherry, prompted me - does the cemetery-town using the dash work >equally for UK locations? > >I have been entering places into Legacy for many years and most of them have >street names with house numbers but they are all in the town placefield before >the first comma so should the street names be dashed along with the >village/town/city before the first comma followed by county, , country - but >another problem comes up where state should be as we don’t have states. Or >would England, Scotland, Wales be classified as such and then the country is >United Kingdom or Great Britain? > >For example I could say 12 Merridash Place-Bristol, South Gloucestershire, >England, United Kingdom ?? Or it wouldn’t work? Is there a UK verifier for us >UK people?! > >Any ideas please? > >Many thanks, > >Jemima > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sherry/Support [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: 04 November 2012 00:46 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations > >Pat, > >If you find a problem in the USA County Verifier, please write to >[email protected], directing it to my attention, and I'll research >it and get it corrected as appropriate. > >The cemetery one of my ancestors was buried is in now in a different county >than when he was buried. So you can't say it doesn't matter if you use the >current county or historical. County boundaries changed around cemeteries as >well as around towns. > >If you put the cemetery name in the location field (which we don't recommend >for several reasons), you should enter it as cemetery-town, county, state, >country so Legacy can correctly identify the county. Do not put a comma >between the cemetery and town name - use a dash instead. > > >Sincerely, >Sherry >Technical Support >Legacy Family Tree > > >On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Pat Hickin <[email protected]> wrote: ><Snip>. >> >> Legacy is good but not totally accurate as far as clueing you in when >> you're entering county before it existed.. >> >> Also when you are entering burial info -- as far as I'm concerned I'm >> happy with the current county since the remains are ordinarily still >> there but Legacy doesn't like it -- tho' that's easy enough to ignore. >> >> Pat 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
