Hi, Jack Well I go the other way with UK addresses. I don't think any comma is meaningless, and I don't restrict myself to 4 fields.. For the UK example given by John Murray, I would enter 33, Worsley Street, Collyhurst, Manchester, Lancashire, England This has the huge benefit of sorting down to the street number if you Reverse Sort the Master Location List. Occasionally I will do this reverse sort, it often throws up un-noticed links, eg people living nearby might be witnesses, or distant relatives. As I never share my data by gedcom, I don't have to worry about compatibility. :-) Regards, Mary Young www.cmy.org.uk
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 09:22:26 -0000, Jack Earnshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron, > I don't believe that many people in the UK (or other countries) would > wish to insert that extra comma between town/city and county. It looks > meaningless on any report produced. OK that is how the Geo database holds > it, but that doesn't make it correct, just reinforces that the database is > US centric. > > Maybe I am breaking hallowed rules, but for UK locations I use village, > town, county, country or town, county, country. Of course that means I can't > easily find all locations in villages around a larger town and would welcome > suggestions for improving the ability to search - but I hate adding > meaningless commas! > > Jack Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
