On 06/18/2016 09:54 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:
Those are official abbreviations. Kosciusko is Ko, Madison is M. http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/files/countysite_designations.pdf
Hmmm... The list appears to be about the county designations used in archaeological site numbers. I'm not sure that makes them the official abbreviations, nor would a typical Hoosier know about them. The page is linked from here: http://www.in.gov/dnr/historic/3668.htm
I found a completely different set of abbreviations used in County Formation Maps, on various sites, such as this one: http://www.mapofus.org/indiana/
Not sure if either set are official, but the second set at least seems more sensible.
Official may have been the wrong word to use, but the Indiana State government seems like a stronger reference for current abbreviations than a genealogy site which appears to be using historic ones. I don't know what source Paul used. Perhaps he has a more canonical reference.
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Thanks. I hadn't heard that before. Spec somewhere?
It's on my TODO list. Time constraints forced me to pause my contributions to this project. The initial draft is here: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-February/023249.html Then it was updated to always delimit sub-regions with a semicolon: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-March/023296.html The character length limit discussion: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-February/023279.html I had written that the limits where 35 and 76, but for Bash it turns out the limits are 34 and 75.
-Matt