-----Original Message----- From: Chris Clifford Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Entering Locations/Places
Hello: I am a new user of Legacy 7. I understand the importance of entering locations consistently; however, the instructions are for town, county, state, country. The majority of my ancestors are from England and a few from Canada. How do I enter these locations, i.e., Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England? If so, isn't there a field missing as Lincolnshire is the county, but there isn't a state or province. Also, what would be the correct entry for Canadian locations; can anyone give me an example? Thanks for any help/suggestions. Christine Christine, I am from the UK, and the advice given so far is absolutely wrong. The 4 field convention to which you refer is designed by Americans for Americans and simply does not work for the UK, and my understanding is that it has limited use in Canada. Your location, as written, for Lincoln is spot on. My recommendation is to write the location as you know it to be. In fact like many others I also include the house name/number and the street for the residence, and this works perfectly well. In my view this also improves the presentation in reports when compared with using the Address function, which I only use for details of living people with whom I may wish to get in touch. See my blog at http://bit.ly/8VDqTc - this also makes reference to a couple of other sites you may find of use. If you receive advice to use "UK" or "GB" at the end of the location, ignore it, as you know we don't use them, and indeed it is also wrong to include either. An important trick is to sort the locations from right to left, so when looking down the list it is easy to find any location. This is achieved by going to View>Master Lists>Location, click the Sort button next to the Globe Icon and set to read from right to left. Also check the box next to the Sort button. Using this system the Mapping function works well and will even locate the actual street in a town, provided, of course, you did include it in the location. Are there any problems caused by setting Legacy up in this way? Only one, and that is the Geo-locator may not work properly. I rarely use this, but when I do, should I hit a problem, I add "UK" at the end of the Long Name, find the information I require and then delete the "UK". It is worth noting that since Family Search opened up their indexing for the Family Search Beta our locations are now being entered correctly on their site. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ 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
