thanks everyone, Ron I did mean the location field, shouldn’t have referred to it as address. I probably wasn’t clear but I was really looking for a way to sort street names without a lot of commas appearing in the reports. I’ll think about it a bit longer before deciding how to tackle it and will look at Micheles’ suggestion to use the plus additional info or the notes. BTW Jenny and Ron, yes our Victorian inner city houses (the ones that are left) still have their old house names attached but they are seldom used nowadays as part of the address.
Erica From: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 8:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location/Address Fields (was ANOTHER short location name question) I never put the street address in the location field anyway so this is a moot point for me. My reasons for using the 4 locations fields is 1) consistency 2) so that the Legacy search features will work correctly, and so that I will be able to integrate with FamilySearch. If I had a location like Smith Farm. I would write it as , Lamar, Mississippi, USA [I would leave the town blank assuming the farm name was used in lieu of the town name, Lamar is the county, Mississippi is the state, and USA is the county] Next to any location field there is a plus sign where you can put any additional information. You can also explain it in the notes. Michele From: Ron Ferguson Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Location/Address Fields (was ANOTHER short location name question) Erica, I have changed the Subject to something which relates to the content. Firstly can you confirm which you mean the address book or the Location List – I think the latter, and have answered accordingly. Commas!! Ugh!! It has always been my practice to write a location as it is written and not using the so called American 4 field convention which tries to fit locations into this synthetic construction. It is still common in England for houses to have names as well as/instead of using numbers, in fact my ex was brought up on a farm whose location was Farm Name, Town, Derbyshire, England. Note there is no street, simply because there isn’t one, just a track leading up a mountain. Inserting commas instead would imply that there is a street of unknown name.. Wrong, there isn’t. For ease of comparison between locations of varying fields set the location to read from right to left – go to View>Master Lists>Locations>Sort. At the bottom right set to read from right to left, click OK to exit, and check the little box next to the Sort Button. I always include the full location, including the house name/number.. street, etc. in the long location, and with few exceptions, certainly no more than any other method, it maps correctly. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ 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
