Perhaps you were asking for practical reasons to use one method over another...
- The address icon will capture data, and for some that may be all that is needed, but is of little to no value beyond that. It doesn't do much if anything to help getting the data back out again in the form of reports or even just searching your database, and that is why you can find many postings in the archives for using the locations fields instead. Some have gone as far as putting the entire address in location fields. For myself, I've only added a church or cemetery name. IMO, the only reason to make use of the address icon is to capture the data so that you are ready for the day Legacy may allow us to do something more with our information we enter there. - The thing to consider with the use of event fields is your use of GEDCOM to share/publish/upload your data. What you enter in the description will stay with the event. What you enter into notes may not, and often does not, stay with the event. For example, an upload to Ancestry.com will move the notes into a citation. Others software doesn't handle NOTE fields with events at all and simply ignores them, essentially throwing out this data. IMO, because of the way Legacy shows the notes in the UI, as an extension of the description, that's how they should export to GEDCOM as well. I've seen some posts where the author mentions including quite a lot of detail on the description line, and I believe that is do to this issue. For myself, I enter my data the same as you. I keep fairly short descriptions, and use notes to extend that as needed. When I share my data via GEDCOM though, I pre-process the file to clean it up. My GED Utils mentioned in my signature includes a macro that will append the event NOTE to the event DESC tag. This works well most of the time. Occasionally my notes are too long, and Ancestry will truncate them. I expect this could happen with other software as well. To answer your question directly, I think you get the most flexibility by entering the address in the description field as you've done. On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Diane Sye <[email protected]> wrote: > In events, for residence address, I've been entering the street number, > street name and suburb in the description field and this looks fine when > printing reports. Would it be better to enter to enter the address using the > address icon, or just write the address in the event notes? > > Diane > > > 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). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.com/ 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). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
