Simon, The so called four field convention does not fit English naming conventions; it was after all designed for the USA. However, if it is working for you good luck! Although you say that you are using GENMapUK which hopefully does fit. It seems like it. The geo-locator in Legacy regards England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Isle of Man as constituent *states* of the UK, as per American states, which, as you know, they are not.
Ron Ferguson BTW this list reqires postings to be in Plain Text and not HTML (Rich Text) _____________________________________________________ *New* Tutorial: Add Location Pins to Google Earth http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw And the Fergusons of N.W. England ____________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: Simon Passey To: [email protected] Sent: 26 July 2010 10:45 Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Event Addresses - Churches 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
