Thanks for the question regarding addresses. I'm a new legacy user and haven't found a place to put present or past addresses. Where is it? I'm also using this group mail for the first time and hope this works!!!!! Thanks for help. Liz -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Thomas Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Location and Address All Have been following the debate on Locations (Detail, Town, County, State, Country) with some interest. As a low level user of Legacy I've always found the User Group an excellent source of ideas. Can see I will have to revise the way I've been doing locations. There are still some things I need to work out though. My locations simply show the full address/location, including ALL the details. Okay for my purposes but realise now that they may be a problem if I ever send a copy of my data to someone else. Another factor was that I didn't even realise you could enter an address for births etc and events! It isn't easy to find and I wonder how many other low level users have the same problem. However I have some concerns about the address field. Sat down and experimented with this. As far as I can tell you have to enter the persons name first and then the address. Logical enough except that the name is then printed on the reports before the address. This looks very odd and I think detracts from the report. What do the experienced users feel about this, is there something else I'm missing! Having the two seperate fields (location and address) in reports makes them look 'messy' to my mind. Wouldn't be so bad if the address came first. To my mind that is the logical order. The actual address is of more interest to me rather than the town. I guess that reflects the peculiarities of my data base, virtually all my family came from either London or a few tiny villages in Yorkshire. When specifying the town how do you handle a major city ie New York or London? Do you just say the name of the city or do you specify the area within the city. My family seems to have sprawled across half of London so simply saying 'London' as the location is pretty meaningless. Far better for my purposes if I can include the area ie Westminster, Lambeth - all recognised suburbs of London. Trouble is, putting in the area conflicts with the Town, County, State, Country format. Another issue for me is that in Britain they don't appear to have the County, State division. All the UK documentation I have ever come across refers to the County ie Yorkshire, Middlesex. How do other UK users handle that? One objection to showing 'detail' as part of the location is that this can mean a series of additional fields at the front of the location, all broken up by commas ie 'St Georges Hospital, 20 Holyoak Road, Newington, London, Middlesex, UK'. As I understand it, this causes complications in sorting and transferring data. Would it be practical to enter this with the 'details' shown as one field with no commas ie 'St Georges Hospital 20 Holyoak Road Newington, London, Middlesex, UK'? This is going to mean a large numbers of locations and probably means it's not possible to sort them. Perhaps I've just answered my own question! Steve Thomas Sydney, Australia
