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From: "Excalibur131" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sort REpositories
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:19:11 -0500
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From: "Holly Timm" <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 4:12 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Sort REpositories


> At 02:50 PM 2/1/2005 -0600, Teresa Elliott wrote:
> >Tom
> > For now this is working sort of for me:
> >
> >VALU021 Lunenburg County, VA Will Book 8, 1818-
>
> why not shorten this to:
>
> VALU021 Lunenburg Co VA Will Bk 8 1818-1826
>
> This gives you four character/spaces to spare I think
>
> >By putting the state code first, all my Virginia rolls sort together,
then
> >by county, then roll number. If the abbreviation were longer, then I'd
know
> >this covered wills from 1818-1826.
>
Hi Holly,

What you suggest is very true and it would work. I guess my thing is that
I've gotten to the age where I'm not as sharp as I once was. I would like to
cut down the number of abbreviations that I use even though it is an
Abbreviation field :-)

Tom



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