I realize you are working with English towns, and I've mostly worked
with specific addresses in USA towns, but here's my 2 cents worth:
For places that I want to know exactly the address and that I want to
map to that exact address, I enter them in the long description
as: City - 123 Main St, County, State, Country
And in the short description field I enter: 123 Main St, City, State
(usually abbreviate the State to CA). This looks better on reports
so I always select "Use Short Location Names" for reports. If the
use of the report requires the full city, county, state, country for
some reason, that can be selected for that specific report.
The reason for reversing the city and street address in the long
description is so it can be found when looking at the Master Locations List.
I sometimes even put the name of the cemetery or the name of the
church where they were married instead of the street address and plot
it to that location (don't have to only use the address).
Many don't like muddying up the locations with the street address but
I like seeing where they were born, lived, married, buried, etc. I
also can see how close different family groups lived to each other,
etc. Sometimes I can even get an idea if they were doing better or
worse as the years went along by looking at the neighborhoods on the
map. I also like seeing if they lived downtown or in the tenements or
lived in the country or in a rural area and may have lived on a
farm. In one case, the family story was the house was "on a hilltop"
(and upscale). Turns out it was close to downtown and not on a hill
at all. In another case the family story was the husband walked to
his store each day but the address I had was far from the store
location. After more research, I found a different address in a City
Directory that was 3 blocks from the store location which I felt was
the correct address.
If it's an indirect relative, I will put the address or name of
cemetery or church in the + address field instead of in the main
location field because I don't care about mapping them or creating
more locations on the Master Location List.
Cathy Vallevieni
Orange County, CA
At 06:16 AM 1/30/2009, you wrote:
I'm not new to genealogy, but I feel like I am so snowed under with
legacy 7. I had been using FTM since it came out, but was not happy
with their new format, so wanted a change. I have been reading the
book, reading the emails and now I'm just going to ask for help from
you all, I really want to start, but find I am having difficulty
finding, or perhaps adjusting.
The Master Location listing, I understand the logic behind it, (I'm
working my English side) you have the mapping system, why just put
the village and country, it could be a large village and if you
wanted to visit or see what was actually around that area, just
having the name of the village makes it harder? I have started
putting the whole address down, so that I can see where the location
really is, has anyone else done this? Comments please.
Picture gallery, I can't move a pictures from one field to another
in the picture gallery?
I would really love to have a Legacy buddy to help me with these
problems I am having. Thanks for listening.
Pat
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