This discussion could be endless because it is not likely that most people will change their minds on this issue.
I value the historical accuracy just as much as the rest of you, but that accuracy can be handled by the adjacent NOTE fields. With this method, you can pull up every instance of all persons living at the exact same location on the map, whether they were born 1,000 years ago or yesterday. In so doing, you maintain alphabetical integrity with your master location list. It is not necessary to have multiple location names in your master index for the exact same spot on the map. With over 13,000 persons on our database and expected to grow exponentially, if we were to use Canada, Upper Canada, Lower Canada, Canada West, British North America, Massachusetts Bay Colony and the whole host of other multiples, we would end up with considerably more locations than would be valuable to us and much harder to muddle through. Of course, you can use the different historical names in the location fields themselves if you insist, but the NOTES fields work just fine for this purpose and they come across just fine when you transfer gedcoms across programs. It's up to each person how he/she desires to handle this and is often stated, Legacy will let you do it either way. Jerry - MerriamFamilyTree.org On 10/29/2011 4:57 PM, David C Abernathy wrote: > This is the problem with ALL of these third party mapping programs. They are > written for "Today's" World and in a lot of cases are useless. > > I for one will use them for a "Guide" only not to be fact, when it comes to > older locations. I use more than one Family Research program and they all > think I do not know what I a typing in. Just ignore the ERROR and use them as > a tool to help locate the possible location. > > I do NOT like the fact that these programs have dropped the usage of the > likes of "County", "Township" and etc. > > Thanks, > David C Abernathy > Email disclaimers > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message represents the official view of the voices in my head. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.SchmeckAbernathy.com > == All outgoing and incoming mail is scanned by F-Prot Antivirus == > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cheryl Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 1:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Showing historical locations. > > I did that, went through all the "at the time" designations. They didn't work > well with any program. Since Legacy busily tells me county X wasn't in > existence at the time in question I have to assume it would balk at > Massachusetts Bay Colony too. I was using another program then. There would > be endless discussions about whether it should be America, British North > America, American Colonies, etc. I went back to USA. > > > > 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
