From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Feb 18 17:03:38 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1J03cjb018820; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:03:38 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1J03cdi001108 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:03:38 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1ILYXFI006841 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:34:33 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1ILYWKn006840 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:34:32 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1IKwYFI006710 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:58:34 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k1INRTXV018023 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:27:29 -0700 X-Envelope-From: pzo003d02@sneakemail.com Sat Feb 18 16:27:29 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1INRTjb018014 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:27:29 -0700 Received: from monkey.sneakemail.com (sneakemail.com [38.113.6.61]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k1INRQTl018479 for ; Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:27:26 -0700 Received: (qmail 18691 invoked by uid 501); 18 Feb 2006 23:27:18 -0000 Received: (sneakemail censored 11777-09958 #1); 18 Feb 2006 23:27:18 -0000 Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:27:14 -0800 To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com From: "Bob" In-Reply-To: <200602181500.k1IF0UFI022961@lists5.rootsweb.com> References: <200602181500.k1IF0UFI022961@lists5.rootsweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <11777-09958@sneakemail.com> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Township abbreviation? ** Reply to message from "Trevia W Beverly" on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 08:00:30 -0700 > Just a reminder to some of our new-to-genealogy folks out there: > generally accepted example - Houston, Harris Co TX While I do not use the "Co." since the county is implied by its position I do not think what you have is a "generally accepted example". As far as I know the "generally accepted example" is to spell out all names completely. I know that a lot of people use abbreviations but as far as I am concerned it is incorrect. While people in the US know the codes for the states others do not. I do Swedish research and I find a lot of counties abbreviated as (H) or any other letter of the alphabet. What does (H) mean to most people outside Sweden? Nothing. I know this one only because I am looking for people that lived in Kalmar (H) County but I have to look up any of the others. Another problem is with abbreviations is that they different things to different people. What does LA mean? I my area it means Los Angeles. In another area it means Louisiana. What does CA mean? In my area it means California. In another area it means Canada. We need to be clear in our genealogy database because you never know who is looking at the data. As far as I know the "generally accepted example" is city, county, state, country or something similar for each country because of the different regional subdivisions. So for your example above I would do it as: Houston, Harris, Texas, USA There is no doubt about the location by anyone anywhere in the world. -- Robert Blair