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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Non-US locations
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 11:55:41 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000630210649.04b00130@pop.erols.com>


Richard Cleaveland wrote:
>As a newcomer to TMG from the UFT world I'm interested in how to
>"translate" things. I have a niece who was married in Charlotte Amalie,
>St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Now in UFT I can identify St. Thomas as an
>"Island" and the Virgin Islands as a "Territory". It looks like in TMG I
>don't have those options (and I haven't heard any suggestion that things
>would change with 4.0a, but I guess anything's possible).
>
>So how do 4.0 TMGers handle this? Fake St. Thomas as a county and the
>Virgin Islands as a state, or what? Of course this problem extends to
>other cases where political subdivisions have very different names from
>those we use in the USA, and even in America where there were no states in
>the early days (Plymouth colony, etc).

If I was entering "Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands" into a
current v4.0 dataset (and couldn't wait for v4.0.a), then I would make the
entries as follows:
City/Town: Charlotte Amalie
County/Parish: St. Thomas
State/Province: Virgin Islands
Country: Blank or "U.S. Territory"

Thinking back to watching (earlier?) political conventions, do I remember
correctly that there were delegations from Virgin Islands, Canal Zone,
Americal Samoa, and other US. Territories? If my memory is correct, it
seems they were effectively treated like states. That is, when the roll
was called of the state, then the territories were called at the same time
(possibly at the end of the rest of the state delegations).

What the label of the field is in the Tag Entry Screen does not make any
difference in actual report output as those labels are not printed.

Hope this helps -




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