I use ?Towcester (eg) for a probable, but unproven location. The problem is that this files as a separate town. Given the vagaries of genealogy, it would be very useful for the Legacy programmers to come up with a way of describing a probable location which was filed with its 'parent town' - so that ?Whittlebury & Whittlebury (for example) were counted as the same location
Joan On 05/10/2011 18:37, Kirsten Bowman wrote: > I loved the angle bracket solution for probable information and used it > in a variety of fields until I saw that, with GEDCOMs posted at > RootsWeb, text within the brackets disappears. That could be good, bad, > or of no concern, depending on your circumstances. I don’t know what > other consequences might be involved with the use of angle brackets, but > it’s a good idea to test any solution you decide to use to see what the > effect will be in the reports or sites you use most. > Kirsten > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson > Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 7:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on name for 'probable' town > Rob Vader wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like the view of the users of this forum on how to register a > > 'probable' town. So someone is born (ofcourse always....) but it is nopt > > entirely sure in what town. If I now would note down in Legacy (e.g.) > > "London?" or soemthing like "prob. London" then it would enter as another > > town/city than London. That is not what I want. Is there something > > similare > > for names of cities like approximate dates? Or how would you advice? > > > Personally, I use <London> if I want to indicate a probability. > -- > 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 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
