There are many sites that allow you to enter a place name and then give you the coordinates and show a map. Just Google "latitude and longitude" or "mapping coordinates," and you will have a lot to choose from. Most also allow you to enter coordinates, either in degrees and minutes or decimal, and find what is there. All of the sites I have visited give you the coordinates in both formats, so you don't have to do any calculations.
I specify coordinates for abbeys, churches, castles, cemeteries, etc. As with anything, you will prefer some sites over others, and, especially if dealing with mediaeval ruins, you may need to do more work. There are scads of sites that help with old places, but that is another subject. CE From: terra...@comcast.net To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Entering info in location field Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 10:01:18 -0600 CE,Would you describe that modicum of effort? Short of visiting the site with a gps, I have no idea of how to begin to find the coordinates.Don From: CE WOOD [mailto:wood...@msn.com] Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 12:34 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Entering info in location field Ah, but with a only a modicum of effort, you can easily find the location and enter the coordinates into the location in Legacy. Then it will appear on any map even if there is nothing there but a field, forest, or some new shopping center. CE From: 1familytree....@gmail.com Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:30:12 -0800 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering info in location field To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.comNope I dont because then the location wont be found on a map. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Tammyj <tam...@brightok.net> wrote:Sorry folks, didn't mean to open a can of worms! My grandmother was born in 1904 before Oklahoma became a state. Don't y'all put the location in as it was at the time in history? I have my grandmother's birth location as: Pickens Co., Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory other great-grandmother as (west of) Cumberland, Pickens Co., Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. 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 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
