Re: [LegacyUG] Norwegian birth place question
I haven't seen any of this, and both my yahoo and roadrunner addresses go bonkers. Perhaps hte rest of the discussion was in my spam folder. So I don't know what the question nor the suggestions exactly were. I just want to point out that both Google Earth (which is free, and requires access to the Internet to run), and Encarta's atlas, can find pretty much any place in teh world. Encarta found pretty much all of my little villages in France, and gave suggestions if I was a bit vague or a little off. Google EArth has trouble finding places you don't have exactly right in your format, and could not find cities in Ireland because it has Ireland as UK, and it is no longer PC to call Ireland Ireland. For France, a web site called Francogene has the vagueness of many of the place names given on the 17th century documents worked out. I got Legacy's new mapping program but have not yet installed nor used it. By the time they finally got it out, I had my mapping project all done. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Norwegian birth place question Rich, For some reason I never received your reply, although it is found in the archives. Maybe AOL's spam filter has struck again...gin. You make some interesting suggestions. I'd suspect that Norwegian researchers are not the only ones dealing with this issue. Given the current constraints of Legacy, do you have a solution? Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/ -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.3/395 - Release Date: 7/21/2006 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Norwegian birth place question
Create an Event called NorwayBirth etc. and then don't print the original birth field in the reports. A real band aid but I will be thinking about this more later. Also, just to cause problems, what is the phrasing in the Norwegian language version? This is where it needs to be fixed first? That is why I suggested an alternate to the default phrases for BMD. Once created, each of us can create as many sentence clumps as needed. And the issue goes away. Thanks for your support. Rich --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich, For some reason I never received your reply, although it is found in the archives. Maybe AOL's spam filter has struck again...gin. You make some interesting suggestions. I'd suspect that Norwegian researchers are not the only ones dealing with this issue. What you propose is very similar to what TMG already offers. (And if I recall correctly, Legacy v5 was to have a witness feature similar to TMG, but we never saw that, either.) I'd agree with you that perhaps Legacy will incorporate some feature that will allow us to track this data. Until then, it is almost impossible to do. Given the current constraints of Legacy, do you have a solution? Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN *** Give the gift of Legacy for the holidays! Order online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/Redirect/Store-Legacy.asp or call 1-800-753-3453. *** 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Norwegian birth place question
Rich, For some reason I never received your reply, although it is found in the archives. Maybe AOL's spam filter has struck again...gin. You make some interesting suggestions. I'd suspect that Norwegian researchers are not the only ones dealing with this issue. What you propose is very similar to what TMG already offers. (And if I recall correctly, Legacy v5 was to have a witness feature similar to TMG, but we never saw that, either.) I'd agree with you that perhaps Legacy will incorporate some feature that will allow us to track this data. Until then, it is almost impossible to do. Given the current constraints of Legacy, do you have a solution? Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/ 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] Norwegian birth place question
Those of you working with Norwegian genealogy are familiar with the question of birth places, i.e., on which farm was someone born. For example, Olea was born on Foss in Grue, Hedmark, Norway. With the default format, the output is Olea was born in Foss, Grue, Hedmark, Norway and that is grammatically wrong. The output should read, Olea was born ON Foss IN Grue...etc I'd like to have the data not only read correctly, but also have the indices record the gard (farm) names as well as the place names. Any ideas? Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/ 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] Norwegian birth place question
I agree with the point. My thoughts are to ask the programmers 1. how difficult is it to add edittable phrases to the BMD lines, in the same way as marriage sentences are editable on the marriage page. This would also be in the same way as Event sentences are created, but as an alternate to the current sentence structure. create a button to switch to the alternate one. I have enough non-Norwegian that I would want to print both, (or have multiple sentences for different situations) available. I would be happy to switch to the alternate choice, print the reports, then set it back to default. The problem I see is to split the location in two halves for any reports. I have wanted to do this since day one, but now am rethinking the idea. What is needed is to have the fields to be in a report have in the list location field1, location field2 etc. I don't know the actual field names, but here is the example (for Norway): [Firstname] was born on the [location1] farm in the parish of [location2], in [location3] Amt, in [location4]. This would be usable in ALL location strings, and changing only the titles in the sentence would be needed. All countries could have their own names inserted. You could set it up for 3 and/or 4 field names for the country of note. I know this is a lot of creating to do, but then this sentence structure could be available in every language currently in the system. Good Luck. I hope it can be done, even if it takes a year or two to get it. Well Jon, I hope you like it, I do. Rich --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those of you working with Norwegian genealogy are familiar with the question of birth places, i.e., on which farm was someone born. For example, Olea was born on Foss in Grue, Hedmark, Norway. With the default format, the output is Olea was born in Foss, Grue, Hedmark, Norway and that is grammatically wrong. The output should read, Olea was born ON Foss IN Grue...etc I'd like to have the data not only read correctly, but also have the indices record the gard (farm) names as well as the place names. Any ideas? Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN Web site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~raymond/ 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@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
