I remember this topic being covered previously, more than once. You might search the archives for "historic location names" or something like that. --P
________________________________ From: William Hoff <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo-Locator Not Always Correct Many of my relatives were living in Virginia, areas now West Virginia. In prior software I used, the location could only be shown on a map if you gave the state as West Virginia, historically incorrect. What are Legacy best practices in this situation? Bill Sent from my iPhone On Jul 20, 2014, at 10:11 PM, Ron Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: The GEO database is a list of current locations...not time sensitive. The county verifier can do some time sensitive lookup but it is not coordinated with the GEO database. The Virtual Earth maps (now called the Bing Maps) are not coordinated with the GEO database either. Those are 3 different ways that locations can be checked in Legacy. What is really needed is a location table based on longitude and latitude. Then given a date and the coordinates, you could query the location for any language and any time frame. > > > >On Sunday, July 20, 2014 6:32 PM, FLR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >From 1778 to 1820 it was called the District of Maine. > >FLR > >Sent from my Netbook > >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: [email protected] >>To: [email protected] >>Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2014 6:55 PM >>Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo-Locator Not Always Correct >> >> >>I recently tried to insert a birthplace as Dixfield, Cumberland County, >>Massachusetts only to be informed that there never was a Cumberland County in >> Massachusetts. While it is is true that Cumberland County and Dixfield are >>in Maine, the state of Maine did not come into existence until 1820. Since >>Cumberland County was founded in 1760 out of York County, Massachusetts, I >>entered the data against the advice of the geo-database. This is much like >>saying a county like Brooke County, West Virginia existed in 1845 when the >>entire state of West Virginia had not yet exist. Anyone else find errors in >>the geo-database or can point me to where I have made an error? > > >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 > > > > >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 > 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 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
