Pam: 1. The program doesn't recognize a dash as a separator, just the comma. The dash would be to distinguish the cemetery name from the town name when you limit to four fields.
For example, using the dash separator in the location field, the location in the report will show: "He was buried in Riverview Cemetery-South Bend, St. Joseph....." Or maybe you could enter "Riverview Cemetery in South Bend, St. Joseph....." If you use the Event, the location will show up in the Event listing as "He was buried in Riverview Cemtery on (date) in South Bend...." If you do not ever plan on sorting your locations or using the Expand/Contract Location Parts, it doesn't matter. However I do both frequently! Why I use the Event over other methods 1. The Event Report is quite flexible and contains much information - name, birth and death date and place, date of event, age at time of event are defaults. You can print it on a group of tagged individual or the Search List (see below) or everyone with a Cemetery Event. Plus there are several other formatting options. 2. The Location Report is minimal. If you print the "Show List" of individuals for a location, all you get is name and RIN. You can tag everyone in the "Show List" or create a Search List and then print the Report from the Search List. More options than the Event Report, but more work as well <g>. You have to select all the fields you wish to include. If you tag the individuals, you can then go to the Event Report and print the report selecting "Cemetery" for "Only this event" and select the tagged group. 3. The Address report is even less useful. You can get a list of names using that address - that's all. Just play around with it - as Mike suggested. Love the name he picks <g>. Make a copy of your Family File by going to File > Save Family File As.... I use the name "Test copy <filename>...." so you don't get it confused with your real data. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Pam Gosling <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. Regarding the cemetery documentation itself; if we are to put > commas in “4” places, as Sherry suggests, what is the purpose of the dash > instead of the comma, e.g. if you have cemetery, town, county, state, and > ?? country; is it to “limit” the sorting to 4 fields? Or is it just to tie > the cemetery location to the town for geographical purposes? What happens > if there are 5 fields? Does the program look at the two words with the dash > as one word? And what “types” of reports does this make a difference in? > Does it make a difference in a GEDCOM output? And then how do others > “outside” USA suggest writing the pattern? If I were to use the “commas” > similarly for foreign addresses, would the “sort” function work the same > way? Or is the program “coded” only for USA so that e.g. the second “word” > is the town, third “word” is state/county, etc? > > > > 2. I see the back and forth preferences of listing cemetery in > Events field vs. burial location line. I have been putting cemetery in > location line because it made more sense to me, but if it’s better to put > in “events” field, some say that WON’T show up in a report? Is that true, > and in what cases? It does seem like more work to list in the events > section, and I’m confused now about what are the benefits of doing so. . > .if someone could explain more clearly why it’s better? In other words, is > it only a gedcom issue, or does it have to do with certain TYPES of > reports, or sorting? If it means I have to manually “adjust”/ edit that > particular info like in a text file to send someone, just to make sure > they get the information, then I want to do it another way, which would be. > . . .??? > > 3. And then, the events issue, when transferring to a gedcom, do > “other” events such as census listings, or occupations, get excluded as > well? If so, what can be done about this, besides manually editing the info > in a word processing program? I have thousands of people in my database > and there has got to be an easier way. > > 4. What happens in reports if the additional cemetery address > location is listed into the text/comment area under “source” documentation > of the cemetery itself? I’m assuming that means no geographical mapping > functionality, but what about for reports or gedcom? > > Thanks so much for patience with these questions! Pam > 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
