Paula, My Legacy Option settings, the use of Geo Mapping and access to FamilySearch make it easy to show that Legacy has several paths where the internal workings of Legacy perform an automatic “combine/combine with” function that ignores the values for Latitude and Longitude. Perhaps the easiest way to see this function in action is to find a new family using the FamilySearch feature of Legacy that has children born in the same location. Use the “this is the same Person as mine” and “Share” option to download to your file one of the individuals and the event using a location of interest. Then go to your Master Location list and the location of interest. Look at the list of individuals using that location. Go back to FamilySearch and download (share) another person and event that uses the same location. Return to your Master Location list and the location of interest. The list of users of the location now includes the newly downloaded individual (an automatic “combine/combine with” for the location). Similarly editing the names for a location from the Master Location list so that saved location names are now identical with those of an already existing location will cause a location merger even though the Latitude and/or Longitude differ. The new Lat/Long are discarded in favor of the older existing ones. If you desire more information, let’s correspond directly – off list. Howard Cady
From: Paula Ryburn Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 7:11 PM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event "location" somehow got changed 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 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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