Bill, I think you misunderstood me. I was trying to say that if you enter the complete address in the location field then that exact place CAN be plotted on the map. That's why I think it's a waste of the mapping feature to enter just the city, county, state, country in the location field. I've even plotted locations that didn't have an actual street address - like "[[John Taylor Farm, ]]County, State". I put privacy brackets around the part that wouldn't look right on printed reports but I can still document the exact location of the property. Of course, in that situation, I have to set the marker where it should be on the map. As someone else mentioned (Ron, I think), I keep my locations sorted right to left so that locations in a particular town or county are together in the location master list.
Linda On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 6:26 PM, William H. Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the tips. I really don't like the mapping feature anyway > because, as you said, you can't plot the entire house number and street. I > really don't care about the city unless to just verify that it ever existed. > I am not going to move the addresses, but already moved a few cemetery > names--one for more than 200 people buried there. > > -----Original Message----- > From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]on > Behalf Of Linda McCauley > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 2:58 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from > Location > > > Bill, > Before you jump into changing everything, let me recommend that you > enter a few both ways then run some test reports and web pages (if you > are going to create a website) to see how they look to you. Also check > out how the information displays within Legacy - especially the > mapping feature. I prefer to have the full address in the location > field and also include the cemetery name in the burial location field. > Others on this list do the same. It seems to me a terrible waste of > the mapping feature to only plot a town when you could plot the exact > location. As far as I know, entering a full address or a cemetery name > in the location field does not cause any problems. One of the things I > like about Legacy is that there is often more than one way to do > something and you can find the way that you like best. > > Linda > > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 1:54 PM, William H. Boswell <whbosw...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 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 >> > 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
