Many thanks to all the people who contributed to this thread. I'd particularly like to thank Ron Ferguson -- I really appreciate the examples you provided (most helpful) -- I always enjoy reading your posts as they are so informative and I've found your website interesting and helpful too.
Thanks Jenny Benson for your examples. Thanks also to Jennifer -- I certainly see your point (Queensland instead of QLD etc.) but I prefer to see the shorter version on the Family screen so, unless there's a way of seeing the short version for Australia and the long version for the rest of the world, I'll stick to what I have. I can easily change with search & replace if I have to. Regards, Ann for Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Ferguson" <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations, addresses and events Ann Pickett wrote: > I have been trying to be consistent during data input but it is hard > when time is scarce and software gets "better" all the time. Do I > understand correctly that neither Ron Ferguson nor Jenny Benson use > the + button to the right of Born, Chr, Died & Buried locations on > the Individual's Information screen? > > At the moment I have the following locations for my grandmother: > > Born: Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding, England > Chr: St Clement's Parish Church > Died: Labrador, QLD, Australia > Cremated: Nerang, QLD, Australia > > I have an Event called "Crematorium" where I have the Description: > "Allambe Gardens Crematorium" (which FYI is in the suburb of Nerang). > > I have another Event called "Residence" where I have the Description: > "b. 30 Darfield St; d. Robert Ashton Nursing Wing, Gold Coast Garden > Settlement" (which FYI is a retirement village in Labrador). > > How would you enter the above info? > > By the way, I used to put these addresses in the Place field on the > Events/Facts screen but I noticed there were a lot of "one off" > locations so I changed to using the Description field instead. Is > that the correct way to go or not? > > After looking at the videos, sample file etc. I began to change where > I put my information. I started to use the + button on a few people > but don't see the advantage -- where does this information show up? > Please tell me if there is an advantage or is it just as good to use > Events/Facts more extensively. > > I have recently started to put dates for the Event "Residence" so > they now appear chronologically and soon I hope to tackle the big job > of inputting hundreds of census entries I've collected from > Ancestry.com and Findmypast. > > Regards, Ann from Australia > Ann, I think you are correct regarding Jenny, but I will leave her to speak for herself. I would also make the point that I don't believe in right and wrong ways when it comes to using any aspect of Legacy. For me the "right way" is that which gives me the results/output that *I* want in Reports, webpages etc. I put the full address, at the time of the Event, in the Place Field ie. Location Field and set the Master Location List to read from right to Left so that I can easily look up a location (View>Master Lists>Location>Direction of Sort - and check the box next to the Sort button on the Master Location List Screen. The disadvantage is that it often plays havoc with the Geo-location list, which I rarely use but when I do I often have to (temporarily) use the American centric 4 field convention, and change back later. I started to include the full address - including cemetery names, where needed - because the 4 field convention does not work for most UK Locations, and since I was not able to use this convention in most case, I decided I may as well include the full address. I afterwards realised that by so doing I was able to view correct addresses in all reports and websites, which cannot be done (in all Reports) from the Address Book, which I only use as a list of current addresses and Repositories for Sources. I know of a number of people who include a house name/number + street in the description field, and may have gone this route had I started this way, but I didn't, and I am not changing all my locations, and am perfectly happy with the output I get. Censuses are, again, a matter of personal choice. I do not use a Census Event, only having a census as a source. Thus my Residence Event for a census may read: Event: Residence; Description: census; Date: 1901; 5 Park Street, Eccles, Lancashire, England. This Event would be included for all members of the household and it's Master Source would be the English 1901 Census, with the Detail including the census references (or at Least those which I choose to include). In the Residence Event the Description can be changed to "birth", death" etc. as appropriate. Taking the examples which you give: > > Born: Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding, England > Chr: St Clement's Parish Church > Died: Labrador, QLD, Australia > Cremated: Nerang, QLD, Australia My Events may have (assuming I have the information): Born: 7 The Crescent, Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding, England (I tend not to include the Riding, but then I'm Lancastrian) Chr: St Clement's Parish Church, Bradford, Yorkshire West Riding, England and similarly for Died and Cremated. In other words I do make it as complete as possible. Unlike my campaign to change the world so that our English Locations are correctly entered (No to 4 Fields) <grin>, I repeat that I believe that how to record them is a matter of personal choice, so my recommendation would be to try out a few variations and see how they look in the Reports and Web pages which you are most likely to use. 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