Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Randy Clark
OK, testing your method, I have a location: Warrington Reformed Lutheren Church, Dover Twp, York Co, Pennsylvania So I click on Sort (which has been set to right-to-left) and then can't find the location at all. This is why I thought that the use of parentheses was necessary. Am I wrong? On Fri,

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Jenny M Benson
Randy Clark wrote OK, testing your method, I have a location: Warrington Reformed Lutheren Church, Dover Twp, York Co, Pennsylvania So I click on Sort (which has been set to right-to-left) and then can't find the location at all. This is why I thought that the use of parentheses was necessary.

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Randy Clark
OK, it's working. Whoever said that parentheses needed to be used needs to come over right now and help me remove them[?]. BTW I left Lutheran misspelled as that's how it was in the original. Thanks. On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.ukwrote: Randy Clark wrote

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Jim Walton
The problems with doing this are presented in the 2nd CD tutorial. If you try to sort your localities by county or state, having the cemetery in the city location will cause the city to sort as a county. A better option is to use the + symbol by the burial and then enter the cemetery location and

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
Jim, Why is your option a better method? I accept that the method of including the cemetery, and indeed house and street names in the Location field, and then right sorting does mean that the output is not suitable for the Geolocation function, but then that American function does not work

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread GeoSci
Ron, EASY! Make the burial an EVENT - for my Grandfather - Armor LeRoy McKain is says: Events 1. He was buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Lancaster, PA. Mifflin Section - Lot 559 Find-A-Grave # 38226479

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
Sure you can Keith, but I don't have to as it's in the Burial Location field, so I do not need the clutter of Burial Events. Just out of interest, because I can think of two, or more, ways of getting your output from the Events, which are you using (in detail please - wrt the description,

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread GeoSci
Ron, I just prefer the way Events come out in a report. For this - I named the event Cemetery (just start typing and it pops up in Event) ; under Description I put the cemetery name : under date I put the date of burial (at least year) : under Place I put the location (City,County,State,USA for

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
(for the same place). You can then use as many fields as you prefer. Rich in LA CA - Original Message From: Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sat, October 31, 2009 8:49:47 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Dennis M . Kowallek
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:12:05 -, Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Sure you can Keith, but I don't have to as it's in the Burial Location field, so I do not need the clutter of Burial Events. Just out of interest, because I can think of two, or more, ways of getting your output from

RE: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Brian L. Lightfoot
-Original Message- From: GeoSci [mailto:geosc...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 9:38 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location Ron, I just prefer the way Events come out in a report. For this - I named

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Jenny M Benson
Brian L. Lightfoot wrote And don't forget, with Cemetery entered as an Event, you can now attach a photograph of the gravestone which will also print out in reports. You can also make the photograph a Source for your Cemetery event as well as a source for Burial location, Name, Birth date, and

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-31 Thread Ron Ferguson
Dennis M. Kowallek wrote: On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:12:05 -, Ron Ferguson rnldfe...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Sure you can Keith, but I don't have to as it's in the Burial Location field, so I do not need the clutter of Burial Events. Just out of interest, because I can think of two, or more,

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-30 Thread Arnold Sprague
Brenda, I take a different approach to this and list the cemetery as a *location*, but in a different order from what you have done in the past. Here are two examples: 1. Chicago, Cook, IL, USA, Graceland Cemetery 2. Chicago, Cook, IL, USA, Graceland Cemetery,

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-30 Thread Jenny M Benson
Arnold Sprague wrote I take a different approach to this and list the cemetery as a *location*, but in a different order from what you have done in the past. Here are two examples: 1. Chicago, Cook, IL, USA, Graceland Cemetery 2. Chicago, Cook, IL, USA, Graceland

Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-30 Thread Ron Ferguson
Brenda J. Van Dyke wrote: I am in the process of a huge cleanup of my location database as I never used the Geo location database in the past and want to use it now. Although the cleanup is time consuming, it’s coming along nicely. I have arrived at a huge job and I’m wondering if someone can

RE: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location

2009-10-30 Thread Roger Jarrett
...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Ron Ferguson Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2009 1:26 p.m. To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Question about mass cleanup of location Brenda J. Van Dyke wrote: I am in the process of a huge cleanup of my location database as I never