Hi Roger, I wrestled with that issue myself just recently. At first I created a whole series of locations in the Master Location List (View > Master Lists > Location) which began with "of." Well, that didn't work because Legacy wants to interpret the word "of" as the first part in a place name, capitalize it, and put a comma after it, creating a sentence something like, "Peter Todd was married before 1871 in Of, Dysart, Fife, Scotland."and I recall some poor soul new to genealogy asking petulantly, "Is there really a place callled "Of?" So I fixed that by making sure the word "of" was in lower case, and to prevent a comma from being placed after the "of" I used an underscore to connect the "of" with the first word of the place name, as in: of_Dysart, Fife, Scotland. Looked pretty good until I tried it out in a report. The sentence read: "Peter Todd was married before 1871 in of_Dysart, Fife, Scotland." Oops. I tried deleting the default preposition "in" from the string and leaving it blank, but that didn't work either, it just came right back. What did work is deleting the default preposition "in" and replacing it with the word "of" for only those specific locations, necessitating deletion of the word "of" in the place name proper, leaving the underscore before the place name, as: _Dysart, Fife, Scotland. The sentence now read, "Peter Todd was married in 1871 of_Dysart, Fife, Scotland." Good! The family view shows the marriage as "Before 1871 - _Dysart, Fife, Scotland." The underscore before the first word in the place name alerts me to the fact that this is an assumed location rather than a known location. Best I could do.
I had occasion to convert my Legacy file to PAF, and sadly the preposition "of" which pulls the sentence together does not transfer (that I could see), leaving a marriage location of "Before 1871 _Dysart, Fife, Scotland." I did not try out a report in PAF. Oh well. I suppose it's no worse the angle brackets before and aft. I have no idea what other ramifications there may be in store for me, having fiddled with the preposition and place names in such a manner only very recently. -- Alice > [Original Message] > From: Roger W. Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 4/20/2006 9:23:25 AM > Subject: [LegacyUG] Location Prep. > > I have several locations where I only know that the person lived in the > area. I would like to change the prep to indicate this. > > How does the prep. work. I changed it to Of and then the standard name > and it appears that the location merges with the same location without > the Of and I still end up with a prep of in. > > Any help in how this works would be appreciated. > > Thanks > Roger Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
