Evening La Nell,
I appreciate your input, but I definitely want to (in some
circumstances) remove portions of the location comma-delimited-string so
that I can be better display these locations on my Legacy screens.
I am not a professional genealogist, so I don't have the concerns that
you mentioned. I always use short location names for Legacy screen
display purposes (on my own machine) but do not export or use the
short-location format for reports.
Guess I will close this request since it appears that Legacy will not do
what I need it to do.
Thanks to all who offered suggestions and/or help. I appreciate it.
David
La Nell Shores wrote:
Please, don't take the county name out of the short location. Take out the
work "County," shorten Nevada to NV, remove USA and shorten the word
Cemetery to Cem. BUT leave in the county name. You have no idea how
frustrating it is to get a gedcom or find locations on the internet that
leave out the county name. Often a state will have more than one town or
cemetery with the same name and many states have a town and a county by the
same name. Remember, you are preparing your information for other
researchers, family members and family that is to come in future
generations. Keep locations where there can be NO guesswork as to the exact
location.
Just my 2 cents worth,
La Nell
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] eliminating county in reports
Hi Debbie,
Unfortunately I didn't make my first post clear as to what I wanted to do:
1) I have a location string such as Local Cemetery, Great Town, BIG
PRAIRIE COUNTY, Nevada, USA
2) For the Location - short string I want to end up with Local
Cemetery, Great Town, Nevada, USA
In other words I would like to be able to pick out any of the comma
delimited location parts and delete just that location part.
I have been able to search and replace the "COUNTY" problem but I still
find that my Short-Location comma delimited string is still <to long>
David
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