Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current

2017-04-18 Thread Trevor Carlson
and cannot find an answer online (which is where I look). Thank you, Trevor Carlson Edmonton, AB From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Jane Linkswiler Sent: 12-Apr-17 7:47 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current

2017-04-12 Thread Jane Linkswiler
Sounds like a great idea for the suggestion box. Jane in Phoenix From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of CE WOOD Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:35 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current? It's a

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?

2017-04-12 Thread CE WOOD
April 12, 2017 5:43 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current? Cathy Thanks for the information; I had noticed some posts here about reverse sorting addresses, but I didn’t think it applied to my situation. And I do occasionally “correct” the mapping / Bing

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?

2017-04-12 Thread Ian Thomas
: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current? Ian, You can plot anything on the Bing maps in Legacy. Just highlight the location you are mapping then right click on the map to put the pin in the right place. I include addresses, including farm names like your

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?

2017-04-12 Thread Brian Kelly
You can always manually place the icon using right click on the correct spot after dragging the map to the correct place. My trick when a place will not plot correctly is to temporarily edit the name to get legacy to plot the place near where I want. So for your first case I would temporarily c

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?

2017-04-12 Thread Cathy Pinner
Ian, You can plot anything on the Bing maps in Legacy. Just highlight the location you are mapping then right click on the map to put the pin in the right place. I include addresses, including farm names like your examples, in my locations. Others don't. Because I do this I always sort my lo

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?

2017-04-12 Thread Jane Linkswiler
Does sorting locations country first help at all? Jane in Phoenix From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 12:41 AM To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current

[LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?

2017-04-12 Thread Ian Thomas
What's the best practice for preserving the older place names while still mapping them accurately? An Australian example, the current ton of Toodyay near Perth in Western Australia was known as Newcastle, and I have some people with that connection, around the late 1800s. Also commonly used by c

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-21 Thread MVMcgrs
: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting When people ask I always tell them there is no one way of doing anything (only the best and most intuitive for you). The two key points are (1) know what the output will look like - how do you want to use your rep

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-21 Thread Michele/Support
acyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting When people ask I always tell them there is no one way of doing anything (only the best and most intuitive for you). The two key points are (1) know what the output will look like - how do you want to use your reports, ch

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-21 Thread Tessa Keough
When people ask I always tell them there is no one way of doing anything (only the best and most intuitive for you). The two key points are (1) know what the output will look like - how do you want to use your reports, charts, etc. - and then tweak the input to accomplish it; and (2) be consistent

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-21 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Jenny, That's exactly why I don't use the Address fields except for repositories and mailing addresses. We each have to decide which standards we will follow and why. If we don't follow some accepted standard we need to know what the consequences are. In this case one of the consequences is mu

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-21 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 21/02/2015 01:27, Jay Wilpolt wrote: > What they were saying is that in the Burial Place field, we should NOT > put the name of the cemetery, but instead put that in the Burial Place > "address" which is the field accessed by the + sign The reason I do not do that (but put the complete address

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jay Wilpolt
Gene, Yes, My senior moment has caught up with me, as one of the discussions (in a different thread) was about having different Long/lat for each stone within a cemetery and that Legacy has no way to handle that as it either creates a new record (if some field differs) or overwrites the previous

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Gene Young
On 2/20/2015 8:27 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote: > Gene, > > This is an oft mis understood area. > > What they were saying is that in the Burial Place field, we should NOT put > the name of the cemetery, but instead put that in the Burial Place "address" > which is the field accessed by the + sign > >

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jay Wilpolt
Gene, This is an oft mis understood area. What they were saying is that in the Burial Place field, we should NOT put the name of the cemetery, but instead put that in the Burial Place "address" which is the field accessed by the + sign On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Gene Young wrote: > On

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Gene Young
On 2/20/2015 6:35 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote: > The problem is the address function Does NOT give you one cemetery addresses > with everyone attached to it, it created one address record for EVERY burial, > I dont want 1200 st. Mary Cemetery address records > > If this is the result you are getting you

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jay Wilpolt
Park (Richmond County, Georgia; 2601 Wheeler Road), > Pamela Arlene Storey marker, personally read, 2002. > > > > > Michele > Technical Support > mich...@legacyfamilytree.com > www.legacyfamilytree.com > > From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] > Sent: Friday,

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Michele/Support
. Michele Technical Support mich...@legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 5:03 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting Michelle, re: addresses and names of buil

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jay Wilpolt
Michelle, re: addresses and names of building do not belong in the location field. These belong in the address field. I disagree that Legacy LOGICALLY handles addresses and places in the ADDRESS field The best example I can give is a cemetery. If you added the cemetery name in the Burial addres

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jay Wilpolt
Ron, can you explain why? the "names" for the 4 "main" municipality location fields are just labels and could be adjusted as needed. Maybe they could be City, Parish, County, Country Or even just City, state, Country and have one field "disabled" There are many ways that these could be adjusted

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread kaytt
Thank you everyone for your ideas. Sorting right to left works for the results I was after. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Larry Lee
gt; > > > *From:* Bobby Johnson [mailto:b...@brmemc.net] > *Sent:* Friday, February 20, 2015 11:05 AM > *To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting > > > > Does Geo Location work with all of your countries when you use t

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jim Terry/Support
, 2015 8:59 AM > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting > > Great!! Maybe you should record this procedure in the "Tips and Tricks" > Legacy web page. > > > > Bobby > > > > From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich.

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Bobby Johnson
Great!! Maybe you should record this procedure in the “Tips and Tricks” Legacy web page. Bobby From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:47 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting Yup.

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Michele/Support
E: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting Does Geo Location work with all of your countries when you use this scheme? Bobby Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Bobby Johnson
Does Geo Location work with all of your countries when you use this scheme? Bobby From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:44 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting As long as you

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Cathy Pinner
So long as you are consistent and always end with the country, there isn't a problem. Just sort right to left and the places come together whether or not you want who lived in a particular town or county or country (or street) Michelle says addresses don't belong in the location. However. I've alw

RE: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Michele/Support
As long as you are consistent with how many fields you use for each country your Master Location List will sort the countries together properly. For example, I use 4 fields for US, I use 3 for Germany, I use 4 for Poland and I use 6 for France. I have no problem with sorting. Where you run i

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread ronfergy . aul
Jay, maybe OK for the States, but no good fir many other countries. Ron Ferguson Jay Wilpolt wrote: >I should add here my own "idea" that I hope might someday be implemented to >resolve many "place" name issues. > >First, lets break down the place field into the individual components. >A field

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jay Wilpolt
I should add here my own "idea" that I hope might someday be implemented to resolve many "place" name issues. First, lets break down the place field into the individual components. A field for Country a field for State a field for County a field for Name Then lets add another set of fields to hel

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Jay Wilpolt
You are asking for a "Genealogy" program to perform the function of a "Data Manipulation" program. To get the results you desire, export the data to csv and then use a data spreadsheet type program to manipulate your data. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:47 PM, kaytt wrote: > I have been using Leg

Re: [LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-20 Thread Cathy Pinner
Hi Kathy, Your problem is that you are choosing the wrong sorting option. Unless you strictly enter locations in the "town, county, state, country" format which appears to suit most of the USA but doesn't suit most of my locations, then you need to use the Right to Left sort. Then so long as you e

[LegacyUG] Place names & sorting

2015-02-19 Thread kaytt
I have been using Legacy since Version 2 and I'm still struggling with finding a way to enter place names to show everything I want in a written report but have them sort properly in the list. My problem is that sometimes I have only 3 names with separating comas and sometimes 5. If I do a reverse

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names in England and Wales

2012-09-08 Thread Mike Fry
On 2012/09/08 16:13, gen_quest wrote: > http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/index.html Let's give the right url :-) -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names in England and Wales

2012-09-08 Thread Ron Ferguson
Just remove one of the http:// Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Randy Clark Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 3:54 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names in England and Wales bad link On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, gen_quest wrote

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names in England and Wales

2012-09-08 Thread Tim Rosenlof
On 9/8/2012 8:54 AM, Randy Clark wrote: > bad link > > On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, gen_quest > wrote: > > Following on from the Washington DC thread that started discussing > Middlesex and London, whenever I am in doubt as to the jurisdiction > of a plac

[LegacyUG] Place Names in England and Wales

2012-09-08 Thread gen_quest
Following on from the Washington DC thread that started discussing Middlesex and London, whenever I am in doubt as to the jurisdiction of a place at a certain point in time, I always refer to http://http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/index.html I recommend that you download the place name in

RE: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-10-01 Thread Jennifer Crockett
That would be wonderful. Regards, Jennifer http://colston-wenck.com -Original Message- From: Ron Taylor [mailto:doit4...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, 30 September 2010 1:15 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES When working for the Department of

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-30 Thread Evert van Dijken
ields, if you always and only >> use your custom events. At least this event can appear on web pages. >> >> Does this sum it up correctly? >> >>   Ward >> >> - Original Message - >> From: "Jerry" >> To: >> Sent: Wedne

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-30 Thread Gene C Harris
least this event can appear on web pages. > > Does this sum it up correctly? > > Ward > > - Original Message - > From: "Jerry" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > > > Nothing wr

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-30 Thread Ron Ferguson
Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 30/09/2010 04:14, Jacki Richey wrote: >> I don't understand why you say that you can only get headstone >> pictures with a custom event. To the right of the BURIED line is a >> +, which allows one to add a picture. Am I missing something? > > Burial pictures - and Birth

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 30/09/2010 04:14, Jacki Richey wrote: > I don't understand why you say that you can only get headstone > pictures with a custom event. To the right of the BURIED line is a > +, which allows one to add a picture. Am I missing something? Burial pictures - and Birth, Baptism and Death - which ar

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ron Taylor
When working for the Department of Institutional Research and Planning at a major university, we maintained a cross-reference table of codes that could easily be used to determine what a given code meant at a specific point in time. Thus, a code could define something during one time frame and

RE: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-29 Thread Jacki Richey
Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names > Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:06:13 -0400 > > Ah yes, that's what I missed in the e-mail I just sent. The only way to get > headstone pictures is with a custom event. And, since you insert the event > Address using the event sentence definition, I woul

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jerry
in the censuses prior to 1974. > > These are just a couple of examples, but the principle applies to all > historic data, it will not be found if one looks in the wrong place. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > ------ &g

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread John S. Adams
-- From: "Ron Ferguson" Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:42 AM To: Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > . we are very protective of our history and historic locations, one > only > has to see the furore when changes i

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -- From: "Jerry" Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 PM To: Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > Hi Mary. I understand what you are doing. I just don't like it > because it creates many different locatio

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jerry
Hi Mary. I understand what you are doing. I just don't like it because it creates many different location names for the exact same place. Hence, we decided to modify the location, when necessary, by using the extra (+) note field. Just seems to me that if you want to find every person born

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread brenzelmf
But unless the "event" took place in the modern UK, why would you even consider putting it into the location field? The country such as England should be the last entry in the location field. So my grandmother was born in 1881 in: Saint Vincent Villa, Lynton, Devon, England And yes, alth

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jerry
l to be on > the maps, or disappeared years ago! > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > *From:* Jerry <mailto:bearjerca...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:56 PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 29/09/2010 16:40, Ward Walker wrote: > From previous LUG discussions, I had been under the impression that the > Address fields (at the '+' signs) had the disadvantage of not showing up in > certain output products (as opposed to the Location fields). A quick > experiment with a burial address

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Bruce Jones
hich I have problems with > are usually too small to be on the maps, or disappeared years ago! > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > *From:* Jerry > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:56 PM > *To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] PLA

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ron Ferguson
as I identified the place. However the place which I have problems with are usually too small to be on the maps, or disappeared years ago! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: Jerry Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:56 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLAC

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/09/29 17:33, Scott Hall wrote: > Good information in that blog ... thanks for linking to it. A question, > though ... why is the addition of "UK" at the end of the location > unacceptable? Couldn't one write, in your example, "Southampton, > Hampshire, England, United Kingdom" in that th

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ron Ferguson
ys.co.uk/ From: Scott Hall Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:33 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES Ron: Good information in that blog ... thanks for linking to it. A question, though ... why is the addition of "UK" at the end of the location

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jerry
On 9/29/2010 11:40 AM, Ward Walker wrote: > It does not show on web pages. Ward, speaking about the ADDRESS + NOTES next to the BURIED LOCATION and DATE fields. It depends on what you are referring to - perhaps if you create web pages directly from Legacy, it does not show up (?) - but if you u

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-29 Thread Ward Walker
ginal Message - From: "G Oliver" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:57 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names Jenny, I enter burial/cemetery events so I can attach Headstone pictures that print on reports. I also use the address along with location. In the location field

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jerry
rk for all American locations either. The location field works > perfectly > well when containing a full location/address, especially if set to > read from > right to left. Where one may find a problem is using the > Geo-Locator which > uses incorrect locations fo

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ward Walker
up correctly? Ward - Original Message - From: "Jerry" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES Nothing wrong with thatisn't it part of the NOTES field? That's what I had in mind... Jerry On 9/29/2010 12:54 AM,

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Scott Hall
ss, especially if set to read > from > right to left. Where one may find a problem is using the Geo-Locator which > uses incorrect locations for all of the UK. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > > From: Jerry > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:09 AM >

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-29 Thread G Oliver
Jenny, I enter burial/cemetery events so I can attach Headstone pictures that print on reports. I also use the address along with location. In the location field I just use City,County, State, Country. In the address fields I can put the complete address and GPS coordinates of the cemetery ( That a

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ron Ferguson
uot; Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:30 AM To: Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > Mark and Ron - Interesting discussion about the use of Cem: - I'll > have to experiment with that, but I think I might still prefer the use > of the NOTES button to add the cemeteries to

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jerry
> From: "Mark Klan" > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:16 AM > To: > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > >> I'm one of the folks who use the Buried/Location field for cemetery names >> & locations, and initially this did indeed ca

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Jerry
; To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:09 PM > Subject: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > > > For what it's worth, my opinion is to use the BURIED field only as a > location field such as Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA - then add the name >

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/09/29 12:07, Ron Ferguson wrote: > I doubt if the use of a colon will make any different to the mapping > function, and the rest of the location certainly doesn't - it is basically > the format I always use, and I do use the mapping facility. In fact from the > point of view of mapping, us

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ron Ferguson
ation gives a much more accurate result (providing the road still exists!). Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -- From: "Mark Klan" Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:16 AM To: Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES > I'm one o

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Klan
I'm one of the folks who use the Buried/Location field for cemetery names & locations, and initially this did indeed cause my master locations list to be quite a mess. However, I got rid of the jumble by entering every cemetery as follows (example): Cem: Trinity Cemetery, Sylvania, DeKalb, Al

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-29 Thread Ron Ferguson
om Subject: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES For what it's worth, my opinion is to use the BURIED field only as a location field such as Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA - then add the name of the cemetery in the NOTES field next to the BURIED location field. Otherwise, you will get LOCATION name

Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-28 Thread BMcL Robinson
Brett BMcL Robinson, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand - Original Message - From: Jerry To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 5:09 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES For what it's worth, my opinion is to use the BURIED field only as a location field such as Detroit

[LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES

2010-09-28 Thread Jerry
For what it's worth, my opinion is to use the BURIED field only as a location field such as Detroit, Wayne Co, Michigan, USA - then add the name of the cemetery in the NOTES field next to the BURIED location field. Otherwise, you will get LOCATION names that refer to CEMETERIES and not CITIES, V

RE: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-28 Thread Jacki Richey
Tim, why do you create a 'burial' event when Legacy has a place for "buried" right after "died"? > From: spa...@xmission.com > Jenny, > > Would one enter the Cemetery like this ? > > Forrest Lawn Cemetery, L. Street, Plot 5.4, Cypress, Orange, California, USA > > I'm like Sherry. I create a 'B

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 27/09/2010 20:59, Ron Ferguson wrote: > Personally I use: Plot, Cemetery Name, Road, Town, etc. I do likewise. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyuserg

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Ron Ferguson
Tim, Personally I use: Plot, Cemetery Name, Road, Town, etc. Ron Ferguson -- From: "Tim Rosenlof" Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:41 PM To: Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names > Jenny, > > Would one enter the Cemetery like

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Tim Rosenlof
Jenny, Would one enter the Cemetery like this ? Forrest Lawn Cemetery, L. Street, Plot 5.4, Cypress, Orange, California, USA I'm like Sherry. I create a 'Burial' event. Tim Don't eat burrito's after 2am On 9/27/2010 12:26 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 27/09/2010 19:13, Sherry/Support wrote: >

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Ron Ferguson
nd is placed in the most sensible place in all reports. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -- From: "Jenny M Benson" Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:26 PM To: Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names > On 27/09/2010 19:13, Sherry/Support

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Jenny M Benson
On 27/09/2010 19:13, Sherry/Support wrote: > I enter the cemetery name as an Event. That's easy to search and > create reports on. Some users enter the cemetery name and address info > using the Address feature for the Burial field. Click on the "+" at > the end of the field to enter the event add

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Sherry/Support
I enter the cemetery name as an Event. That's easy to search and create reports on. Some users enter the cemetery name and address info using the Address feature for the Burial field. Click on the "+" at the end of the field to enter the event address. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy

RE: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Jacki Richey
ry, Benton City, Benton So is this later the best way to enter cemetery locations? Thanks, Jacki in Morelia, Mexico > From: mike...@iafrica.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names > Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:40:17 +0200 > > On 2010/0

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Cheryl Rothwell
I searched on "core" as keyword. I would not have thought of Geo Location. Of course it makes sense now. :-) Thank you for bearing with me. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/lega

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/09/27 17:34, Cheryl Rothwell wrote: > What does "Core" and "Core +" mean in the address fields? I searched > for it in Help without success. Ditto the index to the printed > manual. I found this in the Help File - press the Help button when the window shows the Core and Core+ fields. Sele

Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Sherry/Support
As explained in the Help file for the Geo Location Database, "The Core field shows the regular location name as found in the list. The Core + field adds any other location pieces that were attached to the incoming place name." There is an extensive discussion with examples in the Help file. Si

[LegacyUG] Place Names

2010-09-27 Thread Cheryl Rothwell
What does "Core" and "Core +" mean in the address fields? I searched for it in Help without success. Ditto the index to the printed manual. Where do I put the note about the current name of the county? I do have the videos but I like to be able to look up something, know where to find it next tim