On 07/07/2011 08:42, Erica Portelli wrote: > During the 1800's in Sydney Australia, there was a strange little > phenomena of using a house name as an address,
To a Britisher, it seems odd that you call this a phenomenon as many houses here have a name and number or no number at all and most people woould include the house name in their address if the house has both. 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 have at least 2 lots of relatives who have done that. > 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 don't use commas to indicate "missing" fields, nor do I use a comma to separate house number from street name but I do drop the house name and/or number for my Short Location name. (I do put the entire address in the Location field, don't use the Address field.) My Long Location might be Newburgh House, 10 Newburgh Street, Winchester, Hampshire, England and the Short Location would be Newburgh St, Winchester, HAM. -- Jenny M Benson 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
