Dear Jenny,
Thanks for the tip about the privacy brackets. I shall try it out. The reason I am reluctant to include specific addresses in the Master Location List is because at the moment when I export the information to GenMapUK the locations come in fine (the odd ambiguous location), but if I had specific addresses I believe I would have to go through them one by one. I've found the geo-location to work fairly well for UK places, except maybe for small hamlets. I find as long as the location is village/town, county, country (e.g. Newbury, Berkshire, England) it generally finds them. If the county name has changed sometimes it has problems (so I sometimes search with the modern county name post-1974 and once the location has been found I change it back to the pre-1974 county). I have downloaded and imported the Europe Geo database (not sure if that made a difference). Thanks for the information. Simon > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event Addresses - Churches > Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:25:53 +0100 > > Simon Passey wrote > >I have been using Legacy for a number of years in the UK and I have > >finally got my head around the Master Locations List and have managed > >to geo-locate all of my places in the Village/Town, County, Country > >format. > > That's very clever of you if most of your locations are in the UK! > > >I have been trying to use the Event Addresses for > >births/christenings/marriages/deaths/burials to add specific places > >(churches, cemeteries, hospitals, street addresses for places of birth > >and death) but I have a few problems: > > > >1. In the Event Address List I have many churches with the same name > >but located in different places. In the overview list they just appear > >by the entry in the name field. Does anyone have any suggestions about > >how to distinguish between similar named churches. > > Add the location in [[privacy brackets]] after the name of the Church. > Eg All Saints Church [[Old Burghclere]]. You will see the place name in > the List but not in Reports/ > > > > > >2. Producing ancestor/descendant reports it writes the specific address > >in parentheses behind the master event location, including the full > >address, which generally repeats the master event location. > > This is why many of us prefer to put the full address in the Location > field. > > > > > >This is only a problem for births/christenings/marriages/deaths/burials > >because for events you can put the specific address in the description > >field and this works perfectly for Census records, e.g. "He appeared on > >the census at 17 Bridge Street on 3 April 1881 in Oxford, Oxfordshire." > >If births/christenings/marriages/deaths/burials had description fields > >that would be great. > > If you want to use the Description field for something else you can add > an [Address] field to your Event Sentence to include the Event Address. > However, this still doesn't solve your BMD problem. > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
