Jay, What is the problem with having one cemetery entry and 1200 burials attached to it? The cemetery/address would show up for every person and you could easily see who all is attached by simply doing a “Show List”
The problem you will run into is when you share your information with other genealogists. The standard is locations go in location fields so if you send someone a piece of your file they will have a lot of cleanup to do. If you sync to FamilySearch you will get a “non standard” location warning message. I can give you a third option (and this is the one I use). I create a cemetery event. I like this option because I can add notes, transcription, photographs etc. If I really wanted to I could put the address in the description field along with the cemetery name but I don’t do that. Instead, the address (or directions) are in the source citation. Coal Town Cemetery (Lamar County, Mississippi; intersection of Coal Town Road and White Oak Road), Docia Leora Simmons and William Houston Simmons double marker, personally read, 2001. Westover Memorial Park (Richmond County, Georgia; 2601 Wheeler Road), Pamela Arlene Storey marker, personally read, 2002. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 5:03 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting Michelle, re: addresses and names of building do not belong in the location field. These belong in the address field. I disagree that Legacy LOGICALLY handles addresses and places in the ADDRESS field The best example I can give is a cemetery. If you added the cemetery name in the Burial address field for each person that was buried there, you would have an address record for each burial, instead of just ONE St. Mary's cemetery with 1200 records attached to the address. 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
