From nobody Mon Mar 6 18:25:03 2000 Path: news.cict.fr!univ-lille1.fr!jussieu.fr!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!fr.clara.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!newsfeed.icl.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Surnames moderators Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.surnames.global,soc.genealogy.surnames.usa,soc.genealogy.surnames.misc,soc.genealogy.surnames.britain,soc.genealogy.surnames.canada,soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland,soc.genealogy.surnames.german,soc.genealogy.computing Subject: FAQ: commonly used place name abbreviations Followup-To: soc.genealogy.computing Date: 28 Feb 2000 17:04:08 -0800 Lines: 107 Sender: bill@Stanford.EDU Approved: bill@leland.stanford.edu Expires: 28 Mar 2000 23:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <89f5u8$j1d@elaine11.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: elaine11.stanford.edu Xref: news.cict.fr soc.genealogy.surnames.global:42035 soc.genealogy.surnames.usa:16756 soc.genealogy.surnames.misc:3271 soc.genealogy.surnames.britain:14317 soc.genealogy.surnames.canada:5186 soc.genealogy.surnames.ireland:6227 soc.genealogy.surnames.german:6213 soc.genealogy.computing:59275 FAQ: commonly used place name abbreviations version 1.2c (revised August 4, 1997) Changes with this version: Revised web site for the complete list Articles in soc.genealogy.surnames and its associated mailing list GENNAM-L use standard abbreviations in the subject line. The use of standard abbreviations allows for consistent and thorough searches based on place when searching the message archives. Abbreviations also help to keep subject lines short, for those whose mail or news software sets limits on subject line length. The same abbreviations are used with the Roots Surname List. The complete list of abbreviations is available by e-mail. A brief description of the list: These abbreviations are a collection of United States and Canadian postal codes, Chapman codes, three letter ISO codes for nations, Norwegian standard county codes, Swiss canton postal abbreviations, plus many abbreviations we invented for historic German and Austrian states and other areas. The list is a joint effort with contributions by Kurt Baudendistel, John D. von Bergen, Christian Carey, Jim Eggert, Reinhold Herrmann, Karen Isaacson, Gordon McDaniel, Bill Mills, Franz Quint, Siegried Rambaum, Michael Stamm, and Herbert Stoyan. Canada Use the standard two-letter postal abbreviations for provinces, and add ",CAN". Note that "CA" is normally assumed to mean California, USA, and there are many place names common to both Canada and California. (Ontario, CA can be confused with the city east of Los Angeles, for example.) Examples: Quebec QC,CAN Nova Scotia NS,CAN USA Use the standard two-letter postal abbreviations for states, and add ",USA". This helps clarify the meaning for readers outside of North America, and avoids certain ambiguous cases (AK,USA is Alaska, AK,NOR is Akershus). Examples: North Carolina NC,USA Hawaii HI,USA British Isles Use Chapman 3-letter codes for counties, with country codes: England ENG Ireland IRL Northern Ireland NIR Scotland SCT Wales WLS Examples: Limerick LIM,IRL Monmouthshire MON,WLS There are also abbreviations for Channel Islands, Isle of Man, and other nearby islands. Continental Europe Codes are provided for many cantons, counties, old German states, etc. Some of the national codes include: Austria AUT Belgium BEL Bulgaria BGR Czech Republic CZE Denmark DNK Finland FIN France FRA Germany DEU Greece GRC Hungary HUN Italy ITA Netherlands NLD Norway NOR Poland POL Portugal PRT Romania ROM Russia RUS Spain ESP Sweden SWE Switzerland CHE For a cross-reference to the changing states and borders of Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the 19th and 20th centuries, see FAQ: German surname queries. Many other countries of the world are included in the complete list, which is available on the world wide web at: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~surnames/abbreviations.cgi or https://sites.rootsweb.com/roots-l/cabbrev1.html Or to retreive the list by mail, send e-mail to listserv@mail.eworld.com, or to roots-l-request@rootsweb.com with a subject line of "archive", containing only the line: get family.abbrev The command must be lower case; any additional text, such as a signature line will confuse the server. The message should look like: To: roots-l-request@rootsweb.com Subject: archive get family.abbrev The computer will e-mail you the file. If you want an abbreviation and cannot retrieve files through the listserv, ask the soc.genealogy.surnames moderator on duty at soc-genealogy-surnames@rootsweb.com (we'll also e-mail you the entire list on request).