On 2 Apr 2017 at 1:27, Jennifer Hardess wrote: > I am trying to tidy up my locations / place name list. I notice that if I only > have 2 or 3 names in a sequence e.g. London, England or Horsham, Victoria, > Australia I end up with a comma or two before the place in the master location > list. I have my Master location list starting with the Country e.g. England. I > need advice as to how I can eradicate that comma. Is there a "standards list" > I can refer to somewhere? Especially for England...do I add the county name or > whatever? I have tried looking up the place name on the internet e.g. using > Wikipedia but often "Hundred" or borough is quoted in the information. I am in > Australia & it is very confusing, & time-consuming! Thanks, Jen Hardess Sent > from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10
I think that is a left-over from PAF, a now-discontinued genealogy program porduced by the LDS Church. Early versions of PAF has four fields for place names, and tghey recommended that you use the 4th one for the largest entity -- usually country, and the first one for the smallest entity in the place name. This led to endless confusion. What is the smallest entity? In the case of a baptism, it might be the name of the church. So I would enter "St Meubred's, Cardinham, Cornwall, England" and the program would object that puncuation isn't used in place names. But now FamilySearch (also run by the LDS Church) wants "United Kingdom" as a bigger unit than England -- just at the time when the United Kingdom is threatening to break up over the question of membership of the EU. FamilySearch has also "standardised" on some weird (and erroneous) place names. In Legacy the choice is up to you. You can use the commas or omit them, and if you use them you can tell Legacy to omit them in printed reports. As far as I know you can have as many as you like. So, in the case of a baptism I could enter: "St James, Winscombe, Winterstoke, Somerset, England, United Kingdom" and Legacy wouldn't object. If I wanted to do a search by Hundred, though (in this case, "Winterstoke", there might be a problem if Winterstoke is not always in the third "field", and if that field is not left blank when there isn't a Hundred (as in other countries). But again, I think it is no problem for Legacy -- you just search t6o see if the place name "contains" that term. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: sha...@dunelm.org.uk Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Fax: 086-548-2525 -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
