Or the location of the many houses I have lived in in the same city? On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Bruce Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> How can I map the many gravestones in a cemetery if I don't create a > separate location for each gravestone (or gravestone section)? > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Ward Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A third option for hospitals and cemeteries, or at least a variant on the >> first option, is as follows: >> San Jose - Mercy Hospital, Williams County, Oregon, USA >> London - Ontario Psychiatric Hospital, Ontario, Canada >> >> When typing a location that is only the city name, and expecting >> auto-complete, you must at least get to the comma in order to eliminate >> the >> above locations. Otherwise, I find that this works well. (I would not go >> any >> further down the rabbit hole, though. If I even cared about the floor and >> room number, for example, I would use Notes or perhaps Birth Address.) >> >> Ward >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Brian L. Lightfoot" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 8:41 PM >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations for Marriages, Deaths, etc. >> >> >> I know this has been discussed several times before and its almost as if >> we >> all break down into two camps on this issue similar to the listing of >> sources and the lumpers and splitters involved with that issue. >> >> There are those that like to use the very specific location name at the >> front such as "Mercy Hospital, San Jose, Williams County, Oregon, USA" >> (other countries feel free to substitute names as necessary). That method >> can make for some very nice sorting requirements and the specific >> information is readily apparent when in Family View mode. >> >> Then there is the other camp which would list the above address as "San >> Jose, Williams County, Oregon". The specific location of Mercy Hospital is >> added to the Birth Address Window under which not only is the name "Mercy >> Hospital" added, but the specific street address, postal codes, and GPS >> co-ordinates can also be added. If one doesn't want to use the Birth >> Address >> Window, then the specific location of "Mercy Hospital" can be added to the >> Birth Notes Window (an easier, less-complicated method that I prefer.) The >> drawback of this method is that the information is not readily apparent >> when >> in the normal Family View mode unless you go through the "great effort" to >> click the mouse one or two more times to open up those Addresses/Notes >> windows. >> >> These very specific location turn up all the time on births, deaths, >> marriages, christenings, etc. I ran across one a few months back that had >> the name of the Hospital, the floor, and the room number. I liked the >> statement given by someone a few days ago on this list "How far down the >> hole do we chase the rabbit?" I've often wondered exactly what purpose >> some >> of this extra information serves, genealogically speaking. Well, that was >> outdone last night when I came across a death location starting with "In >> the >> arms of his son, ....city, county, state, USA". >> >> Brian in CA >> >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Robert Carneal USA [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 4:47 PM >> > To: [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations for Marriages, Deaths, etc. >> > >> > My way is not for everyone, but it works for me. Instead of: >> > >> > Miami-Dade Medical Center, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA, >> > >> > I use instead: >> > >> > Miami-Dade Medical Center, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA >> > >> > because the latter has four parts. Then, in the location list, I >> > reverse the sort. Therefore: >> > >> > USA, Florida, Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade Medical Center >> > >> > very neatly sorts with everything I have for Miami-Dade County. >> > Reversing the display so that it reads country, state, county, city >> > keeps hospitals, cemeteries, churches, all together, and I like that. >> > Not everyone does though. >> > >> > Robert >> > >> > At 2010-06-11 05:35 PM, you wrote: >> > >I find that the structure of some events results in an excessive >> > >number of locations that cannot be resolved by geo-location. For >> > >example the location of many marriages is reported in the marriage >> > >license as "at the home of so and so [usually father of the bride], >> > >actual address". Many deaths take place at "Such and such Hospital, >> > >address". Geo-location cannot resolve these because it does not >> > >know to ignore everything from the beginning to the first >> > >comma. These extra entries complicate the auto-complete function >> > >for locations. For example I have a frequently used "location" of >> > >"Ontario Psychiatric Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada". Whenever I >> > >want to specify that an event took place in Ontario, Canada, I have >> > >to type almost the whole location before auto-complete works, >> > >because space sorts before comma. Also I end up with a lot of >> > >semi-duplicate entries in the locations master list, which in my >> > >database currently contains 18,088 entries. I wish that I could >> > >separate the description of the location from the actual location >> > >while not affecting how the complete value is displayed to >> > >users. That caveat makes the option of putting the description into >> > >the marriage notes less than satisfactory. >> > > >> > >I would appreciate your thoughts on this. >> > >> >> >> >> 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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