Mary, Thank you for your clarification. I was also thinking in terms of the insertion of a space for a pseudo county where no county existed, for example: City, , State, United States, where there is not, nor ever has been, a county. (not everyone agrees with me on this, but I defend my right to say it!)
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Mary LeClerc Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 8:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: location names Sorry I tagged onto another thread. I'm new to the usergroup and couldn't find how to start a new thread myself (plus it's late a night--that's my excuse). I'm not suggesting changing name locations. Just the opposite. I'm constantly finding people showing a U.S. city in a county that simply didn't exist at the given date. They've either copied from someone else who did the same thing, or they have changed what the original record showed. I want to preserve the original record and be historically correct at the same time. For awhile I solved the pre/post colonial U.S. issue by simply not putting any country. But I've been recently reminded that there are people in other countries (I'm joking here.). My software very easily can go in and put either "U.S.A." or "United States" after all the locations it recognizes as being states. But that just doesn't work for pre-revolution dates and I have a lot of those. I appreciate your comment about the four fields not working for all countries. I was just inputting some English records this evening and understand what you mean. Thanks. Mary On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: Mary, Whilst what you say may or may not be possible for the time at which the country was a colony, please remember that the American 4 field convention does not work for much of the world. In my view it is quite wrong to change the name of a Location just to make it fit. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Mary LeClerc Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Splitting a family group from main file: advice please I'm trying to be consistent in using a four place convention for all locations. How should early Colonial American places be shown? I try to show county names as they existed at the time of the event (and don't include "County"). Clearly it would not be correct to say "United States" nor "America". thanks, Mary L. 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
