Altering the foot to fit the shoe leads to all sorts of pain in the long run - especially sharing information with other who have not been privy to this forum. Alan
-----Original Message----- From: Ward Walker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 22 October 2011 17:47 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to record this location. You've seen all the other replies, but if you still wish to have the town in the first field, and if you just want to add simple qualifiers like 'High Street', or a cemetery name, or a hospital name, then consider this convention: "Morden - High Street, Surrey, England". This sorts all the Morden's together (if you prefer to stick with left-to-right sorting). For geo-coding, you might still have to do as Bruce suggested and doctor the location first to obtain the geo-location, then add the finishing touches. Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Rolfe" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 7:04 PM 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 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
