Tony, I am tempted to ask what 4 field convention? I do not use this American idea, and it only affects the Geolocator. It has no effect on anything else. Indeed the Bing mapping will even take you to the street provided that it still exists. Legacy Locations can accept up to 9 fields (I think - without checking). The only other thing I do is to set the Location List to read from right to left, so that I can easy see which people are next to/near each other.
BTW. being from England myself I learned a long time ago that the 4 field convention does not work for most of our locations, oh! and I do not put any of those extra commas in. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Tony Rolfe Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] How to record this location. My problem, all those years ago, was that when I entered a location as "Morden, Surrey, England" Legacy was able to deduce that Morden was a town. However, if I entered "High Street, Morden, Surrey, England", Legacy assumed that the town was High Street, and this confused the issue somewhat. The advice I was given then was to only put towns in the location field and so I spent a couple of weeks straightening it all out and here I am. I would love to go back to the old scheme, but the 4-field location means that I would have to put random commas in the middle of addresses which have no rational reason for being there. Everyone says how wonderfully flexible Legacy is and, in most cases, this is true. However, in one of the most important areas of genealogy, getting locations correct, Legacy is about as flexible as a 6-inch I-Beam. The really annoying thing is that it would be so simple to fix. Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox and get back to the issue in question. The simplest way, I guess, would be to have a location of "At Sea", use the death address field for more info on the location as and when that becomes available and put the rest into Medical Notes/Death Cause. Thanks for the advice. Tony 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
