Paula, My Legacy Option settings, the use of Geo Mapping and access to
FamilySearch make it easy to show that Legacy has several paths where the
internal workings of Legacy perform an automatic “combine/combine with”
function that ignores the values for Latitude and Longitude. Perhaps the
easiest way to see this function in action is to find a new family using the
FamilySearch feature of Legacy that has children born in the same location.
Use the “this is the same Person as mine” and “Share” option to download to
your file one of the individuals and the event using a location of interest.
Then go to your Master Location list and the location of interest. Look at the
list of individuals using that location. Go back to FamilySearch and download
(share) another person and event that uses the same location. Return to your
Master Location list and the location of interest. The list of users of the
location now includes the newly downloaded individual (an automatic
“combine/combine with” for the location).
Similarly editing the names for a location from the Master Location list so
that saved location names are now identical with those of an already existing
location will cause a location merger even though the Latitude and/or Longitude
differ. The new Lat/Long are discarded in favor of the older existing ones.
If you desire more information, let’s correspond directly – off list.
Howard Cady
From: Paula Ryburn
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 7:11 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event "location" somehow got changed
Bill, I know about the one where I select the two locations to be combined,
but this thread made it sound like there was some internal logic that
automatically combined locations. Or maybe I was reading it too late at night?
Thx. --Paula
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From: William Hoff <bh...@mchsi.com>
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event "location" somehow got changed
Yes the feature to combine locations is there. I use infrequently but have
used, in fact last night
Bill
On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I've not heard of this internal 'combine/combine with' feature. Is it truly
there?
The OP made me think of how many similar locations I have and that sometimes
I don't type enough letters to get the correct one to display before I tab on
to the next field... and how maybe tabbing accidentally to the field and then
doing something (I know we all "do something" unintentional & don't notice it)
caused a similar location to display & subsequently be saved. I hadn't seen
any mention of what the new location is on the records in question. Just a
thought.
--Paula
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From: Howard Cady <howardc...@q.com>
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event "location" somehow got changed
I have noticed that when editing locations that my current option selections
and version of Legacy V8 (the latest) has an automatic internal
“combine/combine with” feature that sometimes creates unexpected results. I
have not determined what particular set of matches causes this automatic
combine, but I am not using the conventional US 4 place location convention and
I do know that mismatched lat/long entries do not prevent combining. This
might be the cause for others to have unexpected event changes.
Howard Cady
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