Ellen, Please don't take my comments as suggesting I'm considering converting to another program. Legacy is by far the best of Legacy, Family Tree Maker, and Roots Magic. It will continue to be my main database.
That being said, GEDCOMs are used to exchange data at times, and because of differences in the file structures between programs, and either errors implementing or just different interpretations of the GEDCOM standards between developers, data is invariably lost or garbled in the transfer. To the extent that we can use a field (like location) in a common way that the majority of applications understand consistently, we minimize our headaches when doing transfers. Paul -----Original Message----- From: kramer...@comcast.net [mailto:kramer...@comcast.net] Sent: February-11-11 5:25 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] cemetery entries & faithfulness to Legacy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Gray" <grayp...@telus.net> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 5:22:08 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] cemetery entries If you are not planning on exporting GEDCOMs to be used in other applications, this probably doesn't matter. But if you are, putting the full address in the location field increases the chances that the transfer to the other application won't lose some data. Paul Heavenly days! Who would want to bother with anything else but Legacy? I paid for FTM a few months ago just to see what other family members are dealing with. I also downloaded a free version of RootsMagic a few months ago too. They seem very much the same and I don't like their emphasis on the Ancestor Chart on the main page. I'm so glad that I left FTM behind years ago. Instead, I have numbers of relatives converted to Legacy, and they are sometimes begging me (as the elected Family Historian) not to change from Legacy. My only wish after all these years is that Legacy would switch from the old boxy look to more rounded edges and maybe shading colors to modernize the look but leave the Family View as it is otherwise. God bless, Ellen Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
