TY Richard and James for posting these examples. In all my reading post on locations vs. addresses, I had not seen these. I like this approach and will contemplate how to "convert" what I have (which is a hodge-podge anyway). Thanks again.
PS--Did the OP say aunt #1's cemetery is located in Los Angeles? --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ----- Original Message ---- From: Richard Van Wasshnova <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, September 26, 2011 9:26:59 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GPS for street addresses I do locations as James does, however it looks like he was in a rush to finish and meant to specify: Los Angeles - Glen Haven cemetery, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Aunt #1) Los Angeles-111 Easy Street, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Aunt #2) Los Angeles-Los Angeles Cemetery, Los Angeles County, California, USA (generic LA location) This way all 3 can be mapped separately (3 co-ordinate sets) -- Richard Van Wasshnova On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > Welcome John, > Generally, you get more value in Legacy from the former than you do > for the latter. As such, we (user community) have taken to making the > location fields work to suit our research needs. Some ignore the 4 > place system Legacy prompts for, and others (like myself) have tried > to work within that system to get the sorting benefit within Legacy. > So, to finally get to the answer of your question, it is suggested you > enter your location something like the following... > Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Aunt #1) > Los Angeles-111 Easy Street, Los Angeles County, California, USA (Aunt #2) > Los Angeles-Los Angeles Cemetery, Los Angeles County, California, USA > etc. > etc. 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
