I have always put the name of the Church where the baptism or marriage took place. I also enter the name of the cemetery where burial/inurnment took place. I have always thought that it was the simplest way to go.
Roberta On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 7:27 AM Chris Hill <chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > -- > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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