Sorry if I was misunderstood. I was certainly not suggesting that the system be changed. I was simply expressing my desire to understand the system. Barbara
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Herson Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:26 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry Just because you were confused by the Legacy instructions is no reason to change the system. The location field isn't meant to include the names of hospitals, churches, cemeteries or the street addresses of individuals. The Address field is where those things go and, if you only stop to think about it, you only need to enter Address information once and then select, rather than re-enter the address each time you need to use it. Supposing at some point in the future, Legacy decides to limit locations to four items separated by commas ... city, county, state, country? Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 11:30 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry I think I may have figured it out.....I can't believe my learning curve is so steep with this stuff... I had failed to check the box that said to combine only the ones checked. That's okay, because in the list, there were several repeats of cemetery names, so what it did was to combine all duplicates, not just the cemetery where I had 20 occurrences. So, I think I'm okay. Still, I need to have a better understanding. I think, in my case, I should not have viewed the training video where the instructor said NOT to put the name of the cemetery in the Burial Location field, but rather to click on the + and then Burial Address and then put the name of the cemetery in the Name field on the Burial Address screen. That's what I did, every single time. Since in Family Tree Maker, I had put the name of the cemetery in the burial location field, after the import, I was trying to follow the training video and have already spent hours taking OUT the name of the cemetery from the Burial Location field and putting it IN the Burial Address Name field. As a result, I ended up with several single occurrences of that cemetery name. So, I don't really know where to go from here. Ron, am I understanding from your method, that I would do this in the Burial Location field on the Individual's screen (my example is for a USA person): Name of Cemetery, Name of City, Name of County, Name of State, USA and then don't even click on the + Ron, I have looked at the output on your web page, and I like the way it looks there, so I'm thinking to follow your method (also, the less screens I have to click on to get to, and the less duplicate information I need to record, the better). Am I on the right track? Barbara -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ronald ferguson Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:20 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry Michele, In the Location Field. For example consider my uncle Edward Joseph Hayes who was buried at St Helens Cemetery: in the Burial Fields I have the date and then in "St Helens Cemetery Plot 2/249, Lancashire, England" (I could have put "St Helens," before "Lancashire" but there did not seem much point. As I have mentioned I usually put the full address in the Location Field and for Residence Events would put the house and Street there as well (in the same field ie. no comma beteen the house number/name and the street). You can see the webpage output for Edward at http://fergys.co.uk/genealogy/167.html (see also the sourcing) Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: http://www.fergys.co.uk *Over 650 Surnames from 11 Countries* View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:46:43 -0500 > > Ron, where then do you put the NAME of the cemetery? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ronald ferguson" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 7:04 AM > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry > > > > Jennifer, > > I fail to see why the "work arounds" are a failing in Legacy. To my > mind they are an inevitable consequence of the many options which > Legacy offers for storing information (often at the request of the users for more choice). > > I never use the Burial Address option, nor any of the other Address > options except for the current addresses of living people. All my full > addresses are entered into the Location fields, all print correctly, > no work arounds are required. By setting the Location Source to read > from right to left I can see who were neighbours easily or who lived in the same houses. No problems! > > It is my view that just because an option is there it doesn't mean one > has to use it. I regard all of them as offering me choices, I pick the > option I wish to use for a given purpose and stick with it. I see no > need to mix them. > > This is not to suggest that one shouldn't use the Address options but > to raise the question as to why use more than one option for the same purpose. > > Ron Ferguson > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > For Genealogy, Software and Social visit: > http://www.fergys.co.uk > *Over 650 Surnames from 11 Countries* > View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry >> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:31:04 +1100 >> >> Jenny, >> >> I can see your work around will suit for reports, I still maintain >> that having to do these convoluted entries, involving putting things >> like plot details in a name field and using double square brackets, >> is a failing in Legacy. >> >> Jennifer >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Jenny M Benson >> Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 8:48 PM >> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Burial Location Entry >> >> >> If the address of the Cemetery has some of the same elements as are >> included in the Burial Place field, I would not repeat them all in >> the Address, but I would put the name of the town in double square >> (privacy) >> brackets [[like this]] so that I know precisely which Cemetery is >> >> referred to, but I won't get repeated information on reports. >> >> As an example, in Burial Place I will have "Birkenhead, Cheshire, >> >> England" and in Burial Address I will have "Section 6, No 112" in the >> Name Field, "Flaybrick Hill Cemetery" in the Address field, and >> "[[Birkenhead]]" in the City Field. In a Report this will print as >> "She was buried in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England (Section 6, No 112, >> Flaybrick Hill Cemetery)." >> -- >> Jenny M Benson >> >> > > _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ 100’s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music https://www.musicmashup.co.uk Give Legacy as a Gift for 25% Off. Visit http://tinyurl.com/2b49et Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1140 - Release Date: 11/19/2007 7:05 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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