Hello, Thank you, John and Robin, for the information about Location Variables. I have a related question about creating sentences with different entities in [L4]. I've been entering entire phrases in [L4] like "Colfax County" or "Plaquemine Parish" in order to have sentences like "Bill lived in [L]" read "Bill lived in Clarkson, Colfax County, Nebraska" or "Bill lived in "Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana". (I don't want sentences that read "Bill lived in Clarkson, Colfax, Nebraska".) In order to eliminate the descriptors "County" and "Parish" from [L4] I modified the templates in the Master Style List to read " <[County] County, >" or "<[Parish] Parish, >". This works fine as for sentences like "Bill lived in [L]". Sentences that would use the labels independently need to be written as "Bill lived in [L3], [L4] County, [L5]". Is there a side-effect to this approach that I might not have noticed? So, can anyone share how they handle things like counties and parishes? (More generally, multiple entities stored in a single Location Variable.) Thanks for your help! Brian

At 1/19/2018 20:44, Brian Gross wrote >So, can anyone share how they handle things like counties and parishes? >(More generally, multiple entities stored in a single Location Variable.) I always enter descriptors (County, Parish, whatever) in the place entry. My reasons are: 1. I want to make sure that the reader understands that the county is the county. This is not so much a problem in many other countries; but, in the US, many cities have same name as a county in the same state and sometimes the city is located in the same county and sometimes not. 2. Whether for the US of other countries, I can enter the descriptor after, before, or (in some cases) not at all as that is the norm for that country. So, if the county is output in any way (list or narrative report or GEDCOM or other export), the reader will never be confused. Lee