Christine, England is: England, County, Town, District/Parish. But note that the American geo-locators tell us otherwise. They are wrong.
BTW, for a city it is England, City, District/Parish. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Chris Clifford <[email protected]> wrote: >I am getting confused about entering place names for countries other than >the United States. About 95% of my ancestors are from England, the >remainder from Canada. Do the same rules apply here for these countries and >do I need to add the comma(s) for unknown fields in order for searches to >work properly? Should every place name have four fields? For instance, in >England, would the order be City, Parish, County, Country? I have tried >using a gazetteer, but only districts are mentioned, not parishes. Would I >use the district name instead? There are no parishes or counties for my >Canadian place names and so do I leave that field blank and add a comma? Or >should I use community boundaries, for instance, St. Boniface [community], >Winnipeg [city], Manitoba [ province], Canada [country], the order being >smallest to largest? I thought I had this straight in my head, but find I >am becoming more and more confused as I edit my tree and I am concerned that >I may be entering everything wrong. Thanks for any suggestions. > > > >Christine > > > > >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
