Legacy tip: how to auto-add “United States” or “USA” to the end of locations

Geoff Rasmussen

27 May 2011

Question from Mary:

"PAF PAL enables you to add United States or USA globally to all appropriate place names at once to a PAF file. Does Legacy provide this feature for my Legacy file?"

Yes. (By the way, I remember using PAF PAL back in the day for things like this….) Follow these steps to have Legacy automatically add United States or USA to the end of US locations that don't already have the country:

Go to your Master Location List at View > Master Lists > Location
Click on Options > Expand/Contract Location Parts
Make sure there is a checkmark next to Add ", United States"
Click Continue.

United States will then be added to all appropriate locations.

Comments (8)

GR
Geoff Rasmussen

13 years ago

Bruce – send me a list of Australian abbreviations and I’ll ask that they get added. Send to geoff@legacyfamilytree.com
GR
Geoff Rasmussen

13 years ago

Joe – when you choose “Add United States”, if you have any USAs, it will replace them with United States to follow the Standard Finder at http://labs.familysearch.org
JS
Joe Sigala

13 years ago

I there a plan in a future Legacy update to have the program add United States automatically instead of USA?
BF
Bruce Fairlie

13 years ago

Auto-adding US to locations is neat. But what about the rest of us? Auto-adding Australia to expanded Australian State abbreviations would be really useful!
GR
Geoff Rasmussen

13 years ago

Good thought John. The adding of USA is not linked to a time-sensitive database, so yes it would.
JH
John Hyder

13 years ago

Will it add it to states before the United States of America became a country. In other words when the colonies were still under England.
GR
Geoff Rasmussen

13 years ago

Monica – it will do a one-time addition to your existing master locations. For new locations you enter, you’ll have to spell it all out.
MP
Monica Palmer

13 years ago

Will following these steps continue to add the USA to the end of locations or will you have to manually go in and update it periodically? Thanks!