Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with Locations that keep changing names

2007-04-01 Thread Bob Bashford
That may be the case, but I don't use automated search very much ... though I do like the way Legacy scours the IGI so thoroughly. It does seem that automated search wouldn't much care ... the city/town/village name is still the first item in the field. At 01:48 PM 03/31/07

RE: [LegacyUG] Need help with Locations that keep changing names

2007-04-01 Thread Cary
with Locations that keep changing names Carey I'd enter the present-day location AND the old one ... something like this ... (locations made up with Brigham being the current name): Brigham (old bridge by the river), CountyName, NJ, US Brigham (River Road), CountyName

[LegacyUG] Need help with Locations that keep changing names

2007-03-31 Thread Cary
I am trying to document a line of descent that came to Staten Island (then a part of New Amsterdam) in the 1600's, then moved to New Harlem for 12+ years (during which the Dutch were in control, then the English, and then the Dutch again) and then to New Jersey near what was then Bergen (now

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with Locations that keep changing names

2007-03-31 Thread Bob Bashford
Carey I'd enter the present-day location AND the old one ... something like this ... (locations made up with Brigham being the current name): Brigham (old bridge by the river), CountyName, NJ, US Brigham (River Road), CountyName, NJ, US Brigham

Re: [LegacyUG] Need help with Locations that keep changing names

2007-03-31 Thread alt3921
I'm new to genealogy and Legacy, so I might be off-track here, but if you enter non-standard forms for location, wouldn't that hinder the internet search results both inside Leagacy and other products like GenSmarts? Bob Bashford wrote: Carey I'd enter the present-day