In VA, none of the incorporated cities are in counties. It is the only state in the country that does this.
But, county government in Connecticut was abolished effective 1960. Counties continue only as geographical subdivisions. I would assume there may be other states with a similar situation as well. I don't know what happened to the county records in CT. Marty On 4/21/05, Gail Nestor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wanted to remind everyone of something I just recently discovered. > You can use the long location name as the one you sort by (and insert all > the place-holding commas in), and use the short location name as the one > that will look good in your reports and web pages. > > For example (for my own files which is 95% United States research), I may > have " , Decatur County, GA, USA" as the long name and "Decatur County, GA" > as the short name. With cemeteries, I use "Bainbridge - Oak City Cemetery, > Decatur County, GA, USA" as long and "Bainbridge, Decatur County, GA - Oak > City Cemetery" as short. > > I grappled with whether or not to spell out state names and decided that > most people wanting to see my particular data would do a web search using > the 2 letter abbreviation so I kept it. However, I did decide to use the > word "county" in the description because often a town and a county in the > state have the same name, which can be confusing. Then, of course, there > are some towns in VA (and maybe elsewhere) that are not within a county. > > I guess my point is the short location allows the user to customise the > location field to make it readable, while the long location makes it > convenient for easy sorting. It's the best of both worlds! Thanks Legacy! > > Gail Nestor > Smyrna, GA > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nestorgenealogy/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rob Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:32 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] The Locations Hierarchy > > Jennie, > I agree basically with Cathy's comments about commas, and should > clarify my statement above about adding commas for missing elements. I > only insert intermediate commas for a location in a country where I > would normally have, say a county, and don't know in a particular case > which county the town is in. So I'd have "Somewhere,,England" and then > when I find it is in Devonshire it would become "Somewhere, > Devonshire, England". I use this to remind me to sort out which > "Somewhere" it is. It can also help when sorting in odd ways to look > for duplicates, or for finding all the locations in county X. > > However, it's generally more important to have reports looking good, > and that means either using in reports short location names which > you've entered omitting the intermediate commas, or always omitting > them in the long location names. > > Rob > > On 4/21/05, Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Jennie, > > You simply need to add locations from smallest to largest if you always > > end > > with the country and then sort the location list from right to left - and > > the countries sort alphabetically whether you have 3 or 4 or 6 or 9 > > location fields. > > > > Extra commas for non-existent fields, just to get your database to line > > up, > > are misleading in reports. You can remove extra leading commas but not > > internal commas. > > > > Cheers, > > Cathy > > > > At 03:18 21/04/2005, you wrote: > > > > >Another thought on the locations hierarchy and how it > > >should be used, especially considering users who have > > >relatives/ancestors in several countries. > > > > > >Why do we as genealogists need hierarchies? We need > > >to know geographic and political subdivisions, to > > >locate places, on maps and in person. And to search > > >in the correct jurisdiction for records, especially > > >vital records. And probably other reasons, too. > > > > > >The Legacy default is US-oriented: city, county, > > >state, country. I bet that most of us, especially if > > >we don't have very many relatives or ancestors abroad, > > >don't fill in the country. > > ><snip> > > >I have a little knowledge of Ireland. I have been > > >putting a comma to separate the first field, the town > > >name in the second, the county in the third, and > > >Ireland in the fourth. That's just the way it > > >happened. I could have put town in the first, county > > >in the second, left the third one blank, and Ireland > > >in the fourth. In fact, I think that I will go back > > >and do that. > > > > > >Either way, Ireland sorts with USA, which is what I > > >intended. > > > > > >Hope this helps . . . > > > > > >Jennie > > > > 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 > > > 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 > > 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 > 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
