Bill, I am sure you will receive more technical answers, but in the meanwhile...
Can you just add Great Britain or British Isles? ie Banff, Banffshire, Scotland, Great Britain or perhaps just GB. As for the counties and towns that have ceased to exist, I have no problem with the Legacy program allowing them in the database. In one instance, the county existed until 1843, when the name was changed as a result of merging and being redivided. Any dates before 1843 allows the old name, and the program reminds me that after that date it no longer existed and asks me to rename. I have the choice of changing to new name or telling it to ignore the problem. As you can see, I am not very technical, but just making a friendly suggestion. Elizabeth EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:51:56 +1100 Subject: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Hello, I bought a mapping package with Legacy. It is not user friendly or intuitive and is extremely difficult to use Specifically : 1. Does anybody know how to turn off the default American style address format and allow British address formats. 2. Do I need to load up a different database lookup table to do this ? ie Banff, Banffshire, Scotland - This should be enought to uniquely identify Banff in Scotland, however the software I have does not recognise this as a valid placename. The software wants four fields to uniquely identify a place in the following format City, County, State, Country ..... so in the above example is Banffshire the equivalent to a County or a State ? 3. And whilst I am whinging about it can we please have a database that allows places that no longer exist ? ie Banffshire is no longer a shire - It has been swallowed by Aberdeenshire - I am sure that this would also be true of many American places i.e. the Town or County no longer exists but they feature in the documentation associated with your family tree. Regards Bill Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
