Is there an address/residence entry method that would allow me to create maps from that information, or at least extract a list of addresses to use for mapping? For example, I want to map the locations associated with the events in my g-grandparents lives - where they lived growing up and after they left home, where they were married, where they and their family moved over the years, etc.
Sort of a chronology in map format for a person or group of people. -Chris On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:15 AM, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > 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
