Hi Cathy
That was pretty well what I had suspected. It almost seems that the
developers only built half of the system with dealing with
locations/places vs addresses, or just added addresses as a later
extension.
I started using the locations to locate a physical area such as a
Village or Town / / County / Country (being UK based and based on the
GeoLocation list), with occasional extensions to add further sub-units,
such as Hatcham, New Cross, , Surrey, England where Hatcham, Surrey
would be misleading.
I then started finding references to churches, as in baptisms and
marriages, and started adding those to the location list, and my current
locations list is around 2500 entries, of which 200 or so start with St
church / location. I rather suspect that this is what most users do. But
this started to become more complex, especially as those entries were
included in the Location index in reports at the building level.
So I then started looking at the Address fields, which happily show
up as an icon on the marriage and events, or as Address.. option against
birth, baptism, death and buried entries. Now, as I am working through
my database, I am moving all of the entries in Location that refer to a
building, or vessel, into the Address entries, where I can be specific
to the building or church by street and location. Currently I have
nearly 500 churches, or equivalent, and more than 100 other addresses.
The reverse is that I have removed many of those from the Locations list
since they map to a single location.
My feeling is that I am working the 'right' way to record Addresses
as being different from Locations. but that the system, while supporting
both, does not have sufficient support for addresses or integration
between addresses and locations.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From: "Cathy Pinner" <genea...@gmail.com>
To: "Legacy User Group" <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com>
Sent: 23/07/2018 03:28:57
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Address Information
Chris,
Searching on Marriage Address isn't available.
I think the only thing you can do is work from the Master List for
Event Addresses (View - Master Lists - Addresses - Event) and the Show
List options there.
OR, as you say, go direct to the Access database and use SQL since you
appear to know how. So long as you make a backup before you do this,
you can always recover if you don't get it right.
Put in a suggestion to include Addresses in the Search options for
Marriage.
;) I don't use Event Addresses in Legacy. The tools for Locations are
far better.
Because I don't use them, I rarely think of asking for them to be
improved. I leave that to those that do use them.
Nothing I do depends on keeping to the artificial 4 location field idea
(which works for most USA locations but not for those in Australia or
England where the majority of my research is) so I enter locations from
smallest unit to country and sort the location list right to left.
Cathy
Chris Hill <mailto:chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com>
Sunday, 22 July 2018 11:29 PM
Hi Jenny
No, that does not work and gives very odd responses. The problem
is that I need to look at the Addresses with the small house icon and
not at the Place of the event or marriage.
Regards
Chris
Jenny M Benson <mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>
Sunday, 22 July 2018 10:23 PM
I don't think I'm quite sure exactly what you want to search for, but
will searching for a Marriage with Marriage Place empty AND a
secondary condition of Marriage with Marriage Event-Place not empty do
what you need?
Chris Hill <mailto:chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com>
Sunday, 22 July 2018 9:47 PM
Where necessary, usually for baptism, death and marriages, I
normally place the location of the church etc. into the corresponding
fields in the individual or the marriage, and for marriages I also
place them into events for marriage banns and witnesses. This then
means that if I enable it in the reports I will get the (address text)
in the report, which I can control as required.
My problem is that I have found that I may have missed putting the
addresses on marriage itself, but have put them on the marriage
events. What I cannot find is a search or report that will identify
this condition, and not even one that will list the addresses listed
on the marriages and their events so that I can locate those that I
need to fix, and I have 3500 marriages in my database.
I could probably fix it will a single SQL statement against the
database, but don't really want to try that.
Regards
Chris
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