Michele, I started using genealogy software with Family tree Maker version 6. The location field is what needed populating and is what I continued to use. What I want is to replace Location with Address so that all reporting and charting uses the Address field instead. Joke! That would look awful on the Family Page!
Using the Address Field - not unless I could transpose Address and Location using General Options. As an fyi my Address Master list is blank. If location and Address were swapped, my Location list would be blank. What I see on tha Family Page is what I want to see in Charts. The events on individual edit I also want to see on charts (FTM2005 has that option) I store the Census Detail in Marriage notes for a Family or General Notes for individuals. I only record a Census event giving Date and a description of either "Required" or "Not Found". Using it only to record and create a todo list for Census Research. My Events are, as said, Occupation and / or residence, with the source showing the relevant Census with a comment saying "see notes", "see marriage notes" or "see marriage notes of [parents, relative]" Alan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 November 2011 15:48 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Alan, 1) LUCKY YOU! (to have access to the new FamilySearch) I am very jealous :) 2) When I do a census record, I do it almost exactly like Geoff R. does it on the legacy videos and in his census webinar. Event/Fact: 1880 United States Federal Census Description: population schedule Date: 18 Jun 1880 Place: Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, USA 806 Broad Street Little Berry Lewis, white, male, age 48, married, hotel keeper, born in NC, both parents born in NC Francis Lewis, white, female, age 35, wife, married, at home, born in SC, both parents born in SC Harry Lewis, white, male, age 7, son, single, at school, attended school this year, born in SC, father born in NC, mother born in SC HERE IS THE COMPLETE OUTPUT (how it would print on a report): 1880 United States Federal Census; population schedule, 18 Jun 1880, Augusta, Richmond, Georgia, USA 806 Broad Street Little Berry Lewis, white, male, age 48, married, hotel keeper, born in NC, both parents born in NC Francis Lewis, white, female, age 35, wife, married, at home, born in SC, both parents born in SC Harry Lewis, white, male, age 7, son, single, at school, attended school this year, born in SC, father born in NC, mother born in SC I do not record the physical address as a separate location event nor do I record the occupation as a separate occupation event. If I recorded every occupation I found on a census record, a single person could have a many as 7 or 8 separate occupation events! Michele -----Original Message----- From: Alan Pereira Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations Michele, Answering your points. 1) LDS accepted non LDS volunteers as a pilot before beginning the roll-out for everyone. 2) If you put a street address in the Residence I assume you place the "8 Anatola Road" in the description and not the location. If I have a person in a Census who has an occupation, I do not use Residence but place the Occupation in the Occupation Description and the full location in the location fields against an Occupation Event. 3) My wife's charts are pretty well compressed and are mainly A3. Both of us and relatives get more value from them than any report (the family at a glance). Yes, we have to split generations on some of the families as they would be huge. Alan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 November 2011 15:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Alan, 1) How do you have access to the New Family Search without being LDS?????? 2) Me personally, I would never put a street address in the location field. That would be in the notes or as a residence event. 3) Are you putting all of this information on a CHART or in a REPORT? In a report I can understand. However, on a chart? I am trying to visualize a pedigree chart with residence, occupation, census, christenings. I would think that you could only get 1 generation on the chart :) Hugs... michele -----Original Message----- From: Alan Pereira Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations Michele, My grandfather was born at "8 Anatola Road, Upper Holloway, Islington, London, England". How would you record that in Legacy? I am not LDS but am a volunteer for New Family Search. Like Legacy, they allow you to ignore the 4 field convention when you enter a location that does not conform by choosing the option "None of the Above" when it tries to make a guess at the location (ususally by dropping the real value - in the above example it tries to drop "8 Anatola Road"). I need this detail passed through into Charts as well as in reports. My wife, in charts, likes to include Occupation+Location and Residencial locations tied to Censuses, Christenings and marriages (achieved using other genealogical software). Consistency at the price of losing genealogical detail is not a worthy practice. Alan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 18 November 2011 14:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Locations Alan, That is interesting to know. I am not LDS so I don't have access to the New Family Search yet. I use the standard 4 place markers for US locations but I also have a lot of foreign locations as well. For Germany I use 3, for Poland I use 4. I keep it standard within each country. I still say consistency is the most important. It makes your work look more professional. It also makes it easier to share info back and forth. Legacy is set up for 4 place markers which is the US standard. The geo locations and searches rely on the 4 place markers. If everyone out there is doing something completely different then it just muddies everything up. NOTE: It isn't just locations! It is the same thing with names and with dates! Some people put women under their MARRIED name which is not the standard. Some people do their dates backwards and use only numbers which really messes other people up. Locations are no different. Another issue with locations is what we recently talked about, recording the location as it was at the time the event occurred. There are people that don't do that. If they share their info (upload it to Family Search for example), it just makes their stuff not credible and muddies everything up. Michele -----Original Message----- From: Alan Pereira Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Locations New Family Search lets you store an address outside that 4 field convention - I do it all the time. I fully endorse Ron Ferguson's view on locations. Alan Pereira 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). 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