On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 05:20:51PM -0400, Terry Reigel via wrote: > On 9/7/2015 4:47 PM, John Cordes via wrote: > > > I'll have to give serious thought to your approach. I'm > > not instantly coming to grips with 'using level-specific > > place variables' -- could you please elaborate on that a > > wee bit? > Sure, John. > > Instead of using [L], use [L2], [L3] to output just the detail and city, > or [L3], [L5] to output the city and state, for example. > > I also use them to rearrange the order of the fields. For example, when > I know a family moved to a new state (maybe because I find them in a > city directory) but I don't know just when, I use in a Moved tag: > ...moved to [L5] <by [Y]>, when they were living at [L2], [L3] > > so I'm saying they moved to the state by the time I found them, and say > they were at that address at that time even though they might have lived > elsewhere in the new state before that. > > Or, in a Census Tag I use: > ...in the [Y] census of <[L3]>, [L5], <enumerated [D]><at [L2]> > > where I'm attributing the county and state as modifiers of the census, > and stating the detail where known separately. Terry, Ah yes, I get it now. Thanks very much, John Cordes