Sorry I've gotten behind in my e-mail. Tis the season ya know!
I did want to reply to Rob's posting below which I noted on
Elizabeth's posting
From: "Rob Weiss"
> GEDCOMS have two text fields for locations. One for the full location
> (PLAC) and an abbreviated name (ABBR) for each location. Each is just a
> copy of the respective field you see in the Add/Edit Location dialogue
> box, commas and all. So Locations should transfer just fine, provided the
> programs at either end don't get too smart in trying to decipher which
> bits of the text string are which!
If Legacy (or any other gen program) adopted the scheme I have
suggested for identifying places by assigning a "type" tag with each place,
then the the program doesn't have to "get too smart in trying to decipher
which bits of the text string are which!" Each "bit" will be defined as
a City, State, County, Province or whatever. In order to write out a
report, we only need to assign each type to a level. So for example,
when the program sees an address it knows that's Level 1 and that
when it sees a City that's Level 2 etc. One could have multiple
government entities at the same level, so State and Province could
both be Level 3 so that US States and Canadian Provinces would
print just before the country.
jr
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