On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:32:15 -0800 Bjørn K Nilssen > I prefer that second school too. What I'm interested in is where that > location is, and who shared it. Adding 10 or more differently spelled > versions isn't really that useful IMO. It would be nice to have an > AKA for locations too though, with date and text fields.
What would be really nice would be to have date-linked short names for a given location. Something like Long Name: Sometown, someplace, Somecountry Short name: to 31 mar 1837: An original short name Short Name: to 1 Jan 1951: a different short name here Short Name: to: current short name for the place One problem I have is that Census enumerators described the same location differently on different censuses. It would be nice to record what they actually wrote, without having to make a different location entry for each census. Now the program would pick the short name according to the date for the display. Actually, it might be useful to have both short and long names varying by date with a "Location name" to identify it, but which isn't used in reports. 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
