Bill, I am not familiar with the details of USA addresses, old or new, but most of us enter the address/location as it was at the time the record where one found it was made. Thus, one place may have a few names. Where necessary the Event Notes can be used to clarify these. I am not a regular user of the GeoLocation facility, only using it for checking locations, but please note that it uses modern addresses only. Since you are to leave the address detail in the Location Fields, can I suggest that you go to View>Master Lists>Location>Sort and set the Sort Direction to "Right to Left". This makes it easy to look through the locations to find any you may be looking for.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------- > From: whbosw...@gmail.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from > Location > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:49:35 -0400 > > I think I'm going to leave them alone. I only "converted" a handful of them > and will move them back. > > The other thing I just realized is that I have conflicts with addresses. > For instance, in DC there are the four quadrants (NW, SW, SE, NE). I have > exact house and street numbers that use a SW and SE for example. I am very > reluctant to check them out online and merge them for a very important > reason: doing so may not give me accurate results when searching records > online. Also I have some addresses where the city name changed. If I merge > to what is current now, I could possibly miss records that list the old city > name. > > I know that Legacy has the Geo thing that is quite complex and will resolve > some of these and the addresses I have listed could be typos from obituaries > which I have all of digitally. > > -----Original Message----- > From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on > Behalf Of ronald ferguson > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:52 PM > To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from > Location > > > > Bill, > > I regret to say that you are likely to get many conflicting answers to this > one! > > Personally, I only use the Address Fields as an address book - hence only > for living people. I include the full address in the Location Field, in > which I include House, and Street as well as Town, City, County, Country > (I'm from England). > > Why? Mainly because the Address Fields do not appear in many reports. I also > find the mapping, in general, more accurate when the full address is in the > Location Field. > > Whilst some believe in trying to get the use of the Address Fields improved, > I'm afraid I would rather adopt a pragmatic approach :-). > > Ron Ferguson > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage > > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > ________________________________ >> From: whbosw...@gmail.com >> To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com >> Subject: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from > Location >> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:54:00 -0400 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> I know this is going to be >> confusing which is why I can't find it in the Help of Legacy. I looked at >> a tutorial online at the Legacy website and found that it was recommended >> that cemetery names be moved from the Buried field leaving only the city >> and state. A spent a long time putting them there in FTM 2009 because it >> seemed appropriate, but I can understand why they shouldn't be there >> now. >> >> >> >> Multiple Questions on this >> one: >> >> >> >> 1) I tagged all the >> cemeteries that need to have their name moved by clicking on the plus >> sign. Is there a way I can first show all the tagged items and start >> moving cemetery names from there. I can't find anything within the program >> that lets you show tagged items only so what's the point of tagging if you >> can't? >> >> >> >> 2) Should this be >> done for all locations including residences where the person lived? I have >> a lot of those and just started, but didn't finish because I don't want to > have >> to revert back with hundreds of them. >> >> >> >> 3) Are mailing list >> addresses just for living people or residences where the person lived > (i.e., >> census, death notices, etc.). This question kind of goes with item >> 2. >> >> >> >> 4) Master List >> Location list: only city and state? >> >> >> >> I'm finding this very >> confusing. I think I'm going to have to purchase and download the PDF >> manual then read the entire thing. >> >> >> >> Bill >> Boswell >> >> > _________________________________________________________________ > Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ > _________________________________________________________________ Save time by using Hotmail to access your other email accounts. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
