Linda, I agree with you. The only way I could give anyone directions to where my sister is burried is by finding it manually on a map, going to mapping and finding it and entering an address like this: Washington Creek Cemetary, Douglas, Kansas, USA Since it has the 384936.824 N Lat & 0952400.676 W Long it pins it right down to the corner of the old country burying ground wher she is resting.
Some that have large monuments you can zero right in on the monument. Art Seddon ----- Original Message ----- From: Linda McCauley To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Moving Street Addresses and Location Names from Location 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 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
