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From: "Wesley, Debbie" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Recording Townships
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:12:05 -0500


I like the idea of the short place name. I will play with that.

As far as the space of Hamilton Co. vs Hamilton County or IN vs Indiana I am
not concerned about file space but about the space it takes to display on
the screen, a summary report or chart. Once I get to my "final family
writing" I run Word macros that change all " Co." to " County" and " IN"
(case sensitive) to " Indiana".

-----Original Message-----
From: bob gillis [mailto:]
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:21 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [TMG] Recording Townships


"Wesley, Debbie" wrote:
>
>
> I have to admit - while there has been interesting discussion around
> which parts of the country are more dependent on township records, I
> am still curious as to how many of you who depend on the township
> records record them. I am thinking of
>
> City: Cynthiana, Smith Twp.
> County: Posy Co.
> State: IN
>
You can put Cynthiana in the Detail or combined with the township in the
City field, The report output will look the same.

I put villages, hamlets and other unincorporated places in the detail and
incorporated municipalities in the City.

You can put a church or cemetery and a village in the detail: The Third
Parish Church, Annisquam, Gloucester, Essex County MA.

>
> Also I have not been consistant in my place entry as to abbriviations
> and am planning on cleaning up there. Any comments on the virtues of
>
> Smith Twp., Posey Co., IN
>
> as compared to
>
> Smith Township, Posey County, Indiana
>
> The first takes less room - the second reads better. Who uses what and
> why?
>

I like the spelled out Township and County. The extra file space is
minisule as each place combination is a speparate entry in the place file
and is not repeated in each tag.

I started a long time ago using the state abbreviations: MA or NS. I am now
creating short place names with the full state name: Massachusetts or Nova
Scotia. The SPL should be called Alternate Place Name.

bob gillis

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