Robin,
I typically indicate those as:
/Baltimore County, Maryland, USA/
This, to me, indicates that they live within a county, but not inside of
any incorporated town or city. I use this if I know for a fact that they
did not live within a city or town, otherwise, if the town is unknown, I
indicate it this way:
/, Baltimore, Maryland, USA/
This shows that I do not know exactly in which city or town they lived.
This is keeping in mind that I work backward on the locations, where the
last term is the Country, then the State, then the County, then the City
or Town.
So, if I knew someone was from Maryland, but didn't know the county or
city, I would note it as:
/, , Maryland, USA/
All of these formats I use have been show to be compatible with Legacy's
Geo database.
Ciao,
Christopher
On 2/18/2020 11:11 PM, Robin McCarthy wrote:
Christopher,
This looks like a great solution. Along those lines, how would you
record and independent county in Legacy so as to avoid a similar
confusion with those? Would you put
/(Independent County), county name, state, USA/
This has been a very informative discussion. I had no idea there were
independent cities and counties.
Thanks everyone!
Robin
-------- Original message --------
From: "Christopher Seward Sr." <csewar...@gmail.com>
Date: 2/18/20 3:52 PM (GMT-08:00)
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Independent Cities
Coming from Baltimore, Maryland, I have this in a LOT of my entries.
I ha found that using this format suites my needs in properly
identifying that it is an independent city, but also making it easy to
differentiate it from being an actual place name:
/Baltimore, (Independent City), Maryland, USA/
This puts the term "Independent City" in place of the county, but the
parentheses indicate that it is not the actual name of the county.
This also lets people know that you didn't leave the county field blank.
Hope this helps!
Christopher
On 2/18/2020 11:57 AM, Margaret Gagliardi wrote:
The state of Virginia has a good number of 'Independent Cities'.
Would someone please tell me how to properly record them?
Thanks
Margaret
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