I'd be very happy to help with your 'location tamer' All good wishes
Joan On 27 Aug 2011, at 00:57, Terry Foster <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm a developer by trade and am fairly adept at Microsoft Access. I love > Legacy but I have found all genealogy software sorely lacking in the ability > to manage locations and do research on locations in the database. > > Since Legacy uses MS Access as a back-end I decided to add a form and some > code to do what I have always felt all genealogy software should do. I would > like someone to vet this work before I submit it to Legacy as a suggested > enhancement. Please let me know if you are interested. > > Here's a few things this form does: > > Displays all location data. > (http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen1.jpg) > Show all events tied to a location > (http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen2.jpg) > List all child locations in a parent (All cities in a county) > (http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen3.jpg) > Browse to google maps for each location > (http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/Screen4.jpg) > > I have made a user guide, of > sorts:http://electricfoster.info/SourceDocs/LocationTamer/LocationTamer.pdf > > These features, coupled with the ability to quickly edit and standardize > locations in a database, are essential to me. I'm just so happy I can make > it work in Legacy. I thought I would share. > > You will need to know how to import a form and a VBA module into an Access > database in order to use this. > > Please don't attempt this unless you know your way around an Access database > and please, always back up your data before trying something like this. I > just may not be as good as I think I am! > > Terry > > > 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
