I sent this note a while back when the list was really busy. Now that it's
a little slower, I'd like to see if it can be re-visited.
Legacy staff and user group, can you comment on the following
questions/comments below?
Thanks in advance,
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, GA
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nestorgenealogy/
Gail Nestor wrote (in part) on Saturday, October 15, 2005:
I use the Short Location name primarily to eliminate the place commas which
are needed to standardize the location structure in the Long Location name.
An example of one of my Long names (in which the county is known, but the
town is not) is: ", Decatur County, Georgia, USA." In the short version, my
database entry reads: "Decatur County, Georgia." This looks nice on reports
and web pages. I keep the word "County" in the short location to eliminate
confusion between towns and counties that have the same name.
While my reports and web pages look nice, my pedigree charts look very bad
using my current Short Location place names because they are too long, and
therefore get truncated. For charts, I would like to have the option to
show: "Decatur, GA" or "Decatur Co., GA."
I tried fiddling around with expand/contract feature in the master location
list options as some suggested, but it does not work at all for me. Here's
why:
1) Adding or stripping the "USA" is an all-or-nothing thing. You cannot
strip the USA part from just the short location. It is removed from both
long and short names together. Then your whole list sorting is messed up.
2) The expand/contract feature only works on locations which are formatted
with the standard comma placeholders, so it doesn't affect my short names
unless I change them to add these place holders. This defeats the purpose
of changing my short name for reports. I have a lot of rural ancestors who
did not live in a particular town within a county. The contraction feature
takes a location like " , Coffee County, Alabama, USA" and turns it into " ,
Coffee County, AL, USA."
3) I also wish there were a way to strip the word "County" from *only* the
Short Locations and *only* temporarily so I could print a chart.
Basically, this expand/contract feature really doesn't help me at all and is
confusing to use. How does everyone keep the nice, spelled out locations we
all seem to want in their reports, and yet have a "pretty" ancestor chart?
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