Hi Tony, Your statement "Imagine that you add a new location from a census document and find it doesn't exist now." This happens very frequently but when the census took place is the time you are looking at *not* the present. If you want to produce a 'history' for each location then your way works fine, however to me, it's the location at the time of the event that is important not the location as it is [or isn't] now. By all means add a location "history" to each location but you should also include details of when each change occurred so that the situation of the location for each individual could be worked out as this wouldn't be immediately obvious unless you cite each individual in this 'history'.
Genealogy is about people as they were when they were alive together with their ancestors and descendants, and therefore if locations change at a later date, to me this is somewhat irrelevant, and may only warrant a note attached to each individual to whom it applies. Is one researching people or locations? In a later message you say that you would like to be able to source a location, and by inference, subsequent changes to that location. When a location is attached to an individual's event then that event is the source for the location, if not, then where did you get the location from? Geoff ----------------------------------------------------- From: Tony Rolfe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Two sourcing questions Thanks to everyone for their answers. For Question 1, I really think that notes about a location belong with the location, rather than the event where the location is used. If a location no longer exists, but a family lived there for three censuses and a bunch of marriage and birth events, then adding the data to each person's copy of each event is so much data duplication. Updating the information will be a nightmare. Imagine that you add a new location from a census document and find it doesn't exist now. You look at the enumerator's header sheet and find that it was in an area bounded by four streets. So you add this info to the events. Later on you find out a bit more detail, say that it was renamed in 1940. You have to add that to all copies of all events which use that location. Then you find out it was demolished in 1970. Again, add that to all copies of all events. If the info is in the location notes it only needs to be updated in one place. So, it should be sourceable. I'm going to report it as a bug. For Question 2. I'll try out the programs mentioned. I already have CutePDF, but prefer to use jpegs rather than PDF's. Thanks again for all 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
