Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with Locations that keep changing names

Bob Bashford Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:09:25 -0700

That may be the case, but I don't use automated search very much... though I do like the way Legacy scours the IGI so thoroughly.

It does seem that automated search wouldn't much care ... thecity/town/village name is still the first item in the field.


At 01:48 PM 03/31/07 -0500, you wrote:

I'm new to genealogy and Legacy, so I might be off-track here, but if youenter non-standard forms for location, wouldn't that hinder the internetsearch results both inside Leagacy and other products like GenSmarts?
Bob Bashford wrote:
        Carey
I'd enter the present-day location AND the old one ... somethinglike this ... (locations made up with Brigham being the current name):
        Brigham (old bridge by the river), CountyName, NJ, US
        Brigham (River Road), CountyName, NJ, US
        Brigham (Trinity Churchyard), CountyName, NJ, US
It's a little unorthodox, but very understandable ... and ALLthe Brigham names will sort together for your research runs.
        I take it right down to house numbers ...
        Brooklyn (Flatbush Avenue 123), Kings, NY, US
        Brooklyn (Flatbush Avenue 483), Kings, NY, US
        Brooklyn (Ocean Parkway 124), Kings, NY, US
Done this way, the addresses sort first by location (Brooklyn)and then by street names and then by street numbers... if you enter thestreet number first and then the street name, 124 Ocean Parkway wouldsort in the middle ... and 126 River Road, Ames, CountyName, Iowa, USwould sort into the middle of the Brooklyn numbers ...Try a few and see if you like it ... the Legacy Master LocationList makes this easy to do ...I suggested this a few years ago ... you should be able to finda discussion in the archives ...
        Regards,
        Bob Bashford
At 12:18 PM 03/31/07 -0500, you wrote:
I am trying to document a line of descent that came to Staten Island (then
a part of New Amsterdam) in the 1600's, then moved to New Harlem for 12+
years (during which the Dutch were in control, then the English, and then
the Dutch again) and then to New Jersey near what was then Bergen (now
Jersey City) on what is now the Hackensack River.  Every place these
people touched seems to have changed names about 16 times, with some of
their NJ property being partly in New York at one point and then back to
NJ.  Even the Hackensack River was then the Herring.

I started out just using the name at the time, but this means I have many
location names for the same place.  This is very confusing unless there is
some way to link them as alias location names in Legacy.  Is there?  I
don't want 3 names for the location of the same house over time, but don't
want to lose the original names either.  And I need the modern names for
help when planning research.  Also, some sources have only the old name,
some have "Old Bridge, the present River Edge" type references, with
"present" in that example meaning 1935.

Suggestions?

Cary
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