Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs residence

@Gene & Don on April 10 for both Try for yourself: Do a search in the FamilySearch for Jack Robertson (Exact spelling) with place of birth Sweden Our hero will be on on the top Den tis 6 aug. 2019 kl 21:33 skrev : > Could have been both. What are the dates of the two events? > > > > Don Quigl

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

Scott, I agree with you about using the word Township (although we do abbreviate it as Twp consistently because it is well understood in America, but I get your point).  I probably will re-visit this and use a FIND and REPLACE to change the abbreviation from Twp to spelling out Township). I d

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

That's the reason we decided to go with the county abbreviation (Co) to avoid all confusion.  However, if a person always faithfully uses the four recommended divisions (city, county, state, country) or equivalent, it will always be known what entity is recorded and the indices (indexes) will s

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

In my opinion, we should be cognizant of the fact our records are going to be seen all over the globe.  Therefore, *IN* would never be acceptable to me - just my opinion.  And by utilizing , , Indiana, United States    (of America not needed, but USA is also an abbreviation and should

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

I know some people are diehard at using only historical location names, but if you use a website as we do, your location indices are going to look like a jumbled mess.  If you ALWAYS use a totally standard location scheme such as Legacy recommends (city, county, state, country) or equivalent fo

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Sentence

Brian, You may be right. I didn't test with the "date to date" formats. It's not something I would ever enter. When I enter a range I specify whether it's a from - to range or a between - and range. So in my view, Legacy is wrong to accept as a valid date entry You are suggesting that [From

Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs residence

Could have been both. What are the dates of the two events? Don Quigley 1207 Huntington Lane Safety Harbor, FL 34695 (H) 727-330-7030 (M) 925-367-5609 dwq...@gmail.com From: LegacyUserGroup On Behalf Of Rune Mattsson Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2019 12:02 PM

Re: [LegacyUG] Census vs residence

have the same family listed in the 1930 census in two states with quite a long distance between (according to Google Map 490 miles) *Jack Robertson with wife Pauline and daughter Rosemary* They are listed in: *Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States* But also, in: *Atlanta, Fulton, Georgi

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Sentence

Cathy, Did you also test the date to date format which is allowed as a valid range entry format according to the Help file on Date Ranges? If you do you will find the Legacy is NOT using From Date to Date, the sentence will read "5. 15 Sep 1813 to 9 Nov 1813 he attended , , New York, United

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Sentence

Jenny, I used your event sentence as given. I've just done it again in 9.0.0.301 as I used the beta this morning. It's fine in both the preview and the report PROVIDED you've entered the date in the format and you've put your sentence [fromDate] [HeShe] attended [Place].[Sources][CR][Notes]. I

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

On 06-Aug-19 02:30 AM, CE WOOD wrote: If you are posting in plain text, there is no way other than to use capitals for emphasis. There is no way to "bold", "underline", "highlight", et alia,  leaving capitals as the only option. Actually that is not so. The convention is to use *This* to indi

Re: [LegacyUG] Event Sentence

On 06-Aug-19 02:06 AM, Cathy Pinner wrote: You aren't using a Description field so make sure you've put the Event Sentence code you created in the right place - Date and Place only. It's working fine for me. Your date should be entered "from 26 August 1907 to 18 December 1908" But are you usi

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

Off topic. On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, 02:32 CE WOOD, wrote: > Returns? Do have dreams at night too? > > ​CE > > > -- > *From:* LegacyUserGroup on > behalf of dwq...@gmail.com > *Sent:* Monday, August 5, 2019 5:55 AM > *To:* 'Legacy User Group' > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG]

Re: [LegacyUG] Location names for Pennsylvania

This post is off topic. On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, 02:31 CE WOOD, wrote: > If you are posting in plain text, there is no way other than to use > capitals for emphasis. There is no way to "bold", "underline", "highlight", > et alia, leaving capitals as the only option. > > ​CE > > > ---