while we are on the subject of the short location name field: During the 1800's in Sydney Australia, there was a strange little phenomena of using a house name as an address, so the Smith family may have given their address as "Keiraville" Jones Street, Glebe or "Keiraville" 6 Jones Street, Glebe or sometimes just "Keiraville" Glebe. It must have been a nightmare for the postman but it appears constantly in death and funeral notices and even in the electoral rolls. I also think that some families may have packed up the house name and taken it with them when they moved!
I'm trying out ways of entering this in the address field. So far I've been placing the inverted commas around the house name so they all appear first in my address lists, but I'd also like to be able to sort according to the name of the street. I think I read an earlier post from some one in England who was asking about sorting according to streets so he could see who had been neighbours. I've thought of including the house name in with the house number and placing a comma after the number so I get "Keiraville" 6, Jones Street, Glebe. That way I can sort which relatives were also living in Jones Street (maybe that's why they didn't need numbers, the whole street knew each other!) But for the ones with just house name and no street I would need extra commas. So to get around printing a messy looking address field with lots of commas I thought of using the short form as my 'proper' looking address for when I want to print a report. I'm only experimenting with this so does anyone have any comments on why this would or wouldn't work before I start changing my very long locations list. Thanks, BTW this group is great, I've been using Legacy for several years but have never delved into all the little extras it can do, I've been learning a lot in the short time I've been here. cheers Erica 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
