A couple of comments: (1) What drives me crazy when importing someone else’s data is ambiguity of whether the first part of the location is a township or a town. The geo-locator does not find townships. So, I always add the word ‘Township’ or ‘Twp’ if that is what it is. Examples: - Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, USA -- for an event that happened somewhere in the township, but not necessarily in the town/city. - Urbana, Champaign, Ohio, USA -- this event happened in the town. - Champaign County, Ohio, USA -- I add the word ‘County’ when it is the first element of the location. I do not use the comma system for this (I.e., “, Champaign, Ohio, USA”) as I dislike the presentation and some relatives won’t understand it. The only time that this presents a problem is if I only know the town name and there are towns with that same name in adjacent counties, or if the town is on a county border. Then I might resort to Town, , State, USA. - Ohio, USA
(2) If by ‘village’ we mean an unincorporated place or post office, and the township is known, then my inclination is to use Connie’s second option of “township - village, country, state, United States” rather than add a 5th element to the location. Same with urban wards. I also use this for cemeteries and hospitals. I like the sorting better. And yes, I know that one can use a reverse sort order as an alternative solution. Ward From: William (Bill) R. Linhart Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2019 6:23 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania I do agree. My standard is: [1. local jurisdiction/repository i.e.township, village, city, etc], 2.County, 3.State, 4.Country and apply to other countries similarly by always using three commas for all locations [usually each has a repository of genealogical data] . The entry might between comma's might be null if I don't have the information. For example born in USA might be ", , , USA". I know I have some research to do but I only record what I have from that source. For folder hierarchy and some naming situations I reverse the order but always hold to 4 elements for location. I don't believe I have ever had an exception. I am sure I will learn about one here. So far this works for me. Bill On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 12:20 AM Roberta Schwalm <[email protected]> wrote: I do the same thing, Shirley. Most of my ancestors are from Scotland, Ireland, England, Germany and a spattering of French. The only difference is I use "province" instead of State. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 9:05 PM Shirley Crampton <[email protected]> wrote: I use Village, County, State, Country. Hopefully there is no more than 1 village of the same name in the County. If the place is rural then I put the name of the township in the first position. On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:47 PM Connie Laubach <[email protected]> wrote: Trying to decide how to input the location names – I have townships that are made up of villages and boroughs. How are others handling it? I have thought of the following: Village, township, county, state, United States or township-village, country, state, United States (I like this as all villages within the township would be listed together) Thank you, Connie.
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