I've looked for a duplicate location search just last night. Could not find so went thru manually. I'm certain to have missed some. Tried verifying as I went but then lost the map. Some days it goes not pay to get up. Bill
> On Jan 31, 2015, at 8:11 PM, Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Bill, I know about the one where I select the two locations to be combined, > but this thread made it sound like there was some internal logic that > automatically combined locations. Or maybe I was reading it too late at > night? Thx. --Paula > > From: William Hoff <bh...@mchsi.com> > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:53 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event "location" somehow got changed > > Yes the feature to combine locations is there. I use infrequently but have > used, in fact last night > Bill > > > >> On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Paula Ryburn <paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net> >> wrote: >> >> I've not heard of this internal 'combine/combine with' feature. Is it truly >> there? >> >> The OP made me think of how many similar locations I have and that sometimes >> I don't type enough letters to get the correct one to display before I tab >> on to the next field... and how maybe tabbing accidentally to the field and >> then doing something (I know we all "do something" unintentional & don't >> notice it) caused a similar location to display & subsequently be saved. I >> hadn't seen any mention of what the new location is on the records in >> question. Just a thought. >> --Paula >> >> From: Howard Cady <howardc...@q.com> >> To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 12:09 PM >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event "location" somehow got changed >> >> I have noticed that when editing locations that my current option selections >> and version of Legacy V8 (the latest) has an automatic internal >> “combine/combine with” feature that sometimes creates unexpected results. I >> have not determined what particular set of matches causes this automatic >> combine, but I am not using the conventional US 4 place location convention >> and I do know that mismatched lat/long entries do not prevent combining. >> This might be the cause for others to have unexpected event changes. >> Howard Cady >> >> From: Gene Wheeler >> Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 10:05 AM >> To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event "location" somehow got changed >> >> Thanks, Ron. Very helpful. >> >> Gene >> >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 2:37 AM, <ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: >> We Do not know! >> >> Ron Ferguson >> >> Gene Wheeler <bridge...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> OK, Legacy Support, what's going on here? >> >> Gene >> >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Jess <jrkmorg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I had this issue as well, and honestly thought I was crazy! I had at least a >> dozen people with burial location of Bellvieu Cemetery, Benton, Bossier >> Parish, Louisiana. I know this because I was going from a book and can >> source every one (it is a family plot). I went to print a list so To make >> sure I photographed all of them when I went, and it only gave me three >> people. >> >> Jessica Morgan >> >> On Jan 4, 2015, at 6:07 PM, Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> O help. I don't think you're going mad. >> >> I had this happen the other day but caught it straight away and wasn't sure >> what I'd done. Just one location changed to a new location I'd just entered. >> The new location was a birth location. The location that changed was the >> death and burial location for that person and for everyone using that death >> location. I know I made a mess of the new entry and edited it a few times as >> I found out more about the location. I was also having some computer >> problems and Legacy crashed a couple of times so I put it down to that. >> >> I've now restored an earlier image of my computer and all seems well again. >> >> Cathy >> >> Gene Wheeler wrote: >>> >>> No, no clean-up, no merging, nothing like that. In fact, I've been >>> working on a totally different Legacy file for the past month. >>> >>> Gene >>> >>> O n Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:58 AM, MikeFry <emjay...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:emjay...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> On 2015/01/04 05:43 PM, Gene Wheeler wrote: >>> > I'm using the current release of v.8 and have been for months. >>> I just >>> > happened to notice that the location for the burial of both of >>> my parents >>> > was changed to the same incorrect cemetery. The correct >>> cemetery has been >>> > part of their records for years, and now, somehow, they BOTH got >>> changed to >>> > the same incorrect cemetery. Any idea what gives? 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