As far as St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve, I believe the difference is male vs. female. Louis was a male saint, Genevieve was female.
Dede Holden On Feb 18, 2008 12:48 PM, La Nell Shores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Legacy does not like some locations with a space in them. I just ignore the > warning and go on. Personally, I like La Salle, De Kalb and De Soto (with > the space, but Legacy does not. Legacy does recognize De Will, De Smet, Le > Crosse, La Pointe and Le Flore(with the space), so go figure. Another > anomaly is St. Louis and Ste. Genevieve, both in Missouri. I may need to > understand the French language better! > > My advice is to enter it the way you like it and ignore the warnings. Maybe > the fact that my name has a space in it, which most people ignore, has > something to do with the fact that I like those locations with the space:) > > La Nell > > Subject: [LegacyUG] Possible Bug - Location issue > > > I'm not sure if this is a bug, or just me, so I thought I'd bring it > to the LUG before I take it to support. > I'm converting a bound book of family history to a Legacy Dbase. In > doing so, I'm dealing with a lot of locations in the parishes of > Louisiana, United States of America. > > When inputting a town in LaSalle parish, Louisiana, Geo Location came > up with and gave me ONE option.... La Salle ... as the parish. I > selected it, and it autofilled the location I was working with. > > Then I get an error message that tells me La Salle was never a known > parish in Louisiana. > > IF I remove the space, then, to create LaSalle... it accepts it just fine. > > I then have to go to the master location list and merge the La Salle > with LaSalle. > > I've had this happen to me several times, as I'll have the town name > in Louisiana, but not the parish, which ends up being LaSalle. > > Has anyone else had an issue such as this? And if so, what did you do > to correct it? Consequently, IS this a bug that should be reported to > Legacy? > > Jess M > > > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.7/1283 - Release Date: 2/16/2008 > 2:16 PM > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > - Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
