A cursory search of the archives will reveal that the arbitrary use of the four part location works for very little. Legacy likes it, and has designed features that depend on it. There was no need to do so, but they did it anyway.
Many of us, especially those not in the USA, find it obnoxious at best. Use what works best for you. There are work-around solutions to the minor problems of using however many or few location parts as work for you. Forget the commas too. Use what you want, not what some arbiter, who has no inkling of your needs tells you to do. The good part about Legacy is that you CAN do what you want. Yes, you may not be able to use some feature, but maybe you would never have used it anyway. All locations can be more easily and accurately identified outside of Legacy, such as the precise location of a grave, if you so wish! As for accuracy, THAT is much more accurate that anything Legacy offers. CE Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 16:51:39 +1200 From: shirleyr...@clear.net.nz Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Perhaps Jeff could answer this for us. Shirley NZ ----- Original Message ----- From: Jennifer Crockett To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2013 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country Hi Kathy The 4 part location does not suit Australian or UK places (and those in many other countries) and trying to force them into it using blanks and commas looks terrible and isn't accurate. If the Origins and Migration reports in Legacy 8 don't support places outside the USA and their 4 part location convention, so be it. I won't be using it in that case. Regards, Jennifer http://colston-wenck.com From: Kathy Thompson [mailto:kmthoms...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, 4 September 2013 12:57 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] default 4-part location - city, county, state, country Hi, Just wondering, given that the locations are supposed to be a 4-part location (city, county, state, country), what should I do for English & Australian locations which typically only have three parts City, County, Country (for UK) or City, State, Country (for Australia) I would rather not put in a blank county/state just for the sake of uniformity, but I feel that with the upcoming update to Legacy 8 and the new Origins and Migration Reports, I am going to have to do something, or my reports are not going to be completely accurate. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I can do - of if I do need to put in a blank County/State, how I can do this for a database of at least 5000 UK & Australian based people? Thanks Kathy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
