The Chandler Family Association Lineages Database – Abbreviations
Location Names within CFALD are recorded at four levels – the place, the county, the state and the country. CFALD reports can contain up to three place names per individual – places of birth, marriage and death together with relevant dates. The most readable report presentation is when each person’s details are contained on one line. In most cases we are able to achieve that, by abbreviating the state and country (levels 3 and 4) using standard codes.
The links below will be helpful to those reading CFALD reports and can also be used in conjunction with the CFALD Data Entry Standards when you are preparing information to be submitted to CFALD.
Please alert Jim if any of the links below stop working at 
.
Place Name Abbreviations – Helpful Links
To identify the correct county for a place in the US, use //resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi
NOTE: Many of the Rootweb features are currently offline due to a security issue. Once the county lookup feature is re-activated, this link will be added back. For now, ask for help at
.
To identify counties within states in the US, use
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_counties_by_U.S._state
To identify 2-character state codes in the US, use
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_state_codes
To identify 2-character province codes for Canada, use
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_subnational_postal_abbreviations
To identify 3-character Chapman codes for British counties, use
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_code#Country_codes
To identify 2- or 3-character Australian state codes, use
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_and_territories_of_Australia
(use “Postal” column)