To answer your questions 1. I put everything in the location. Probably my most extreme case is Plot no, row no, section, cemetery name, street no, street name, city name, county name, country name. I don't put anything in the address fields. I also don't use the double comma convention to show something is missing. I've never had anything missing, so it hasn't affected me.
2. The main benefit is that I can use the sorted location list to get everyone who lived in a single street, or who is buried in a single cemetery, or who was baptised, married or buried in a particular Church etc. Also, I always use short names in reports, so I can configure the short names to be whatever I like, to make the reports appear how I want. 3. I can't see any major disadvantage in the way I do things. I get a big location list, but I have to have that many entries in either the location list, the address list or some combination thereof. Occasionally Bing Maps throws a wobbly and puts a pointer in the middle of somewhere wrong, but that's usually easily fixed. 4. Mostly web pages at the moment, but I did give their personal ancestor report on paper to a few family members when I went back to the UK. 5. Almost all my locations are in the UK (85%), Australia (15%), elsewhere in the world (0.5%) all roughly. Yes, I know that adds up to 100.5% I do have one person born somewhere in America, and his location simply reads "America" because that's what the census taker wrote. Cheers Tony 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
