I think you’ve misunderstood my post in that I wanted to be able to print out a report that ONLY detailed these special history notes. Your mention of the fact that the Location Index allows them to printed is true but at the expense of also printing out every other location referenced in the entire report. And there are other undesirable side effects that can happen using the Location Index. If your note about a location is only a brief sentence or two, then the Location Index maintains an appearance that is acceptable. But a lot of us may have added lengthy notes about locations that are several paragraphs or longer. When that happens in a Location Index as you suggest, then the appearance starts to look like anything but an Index.
For example, I have some lengthy notes about how certain towns or counties got their names, especially when they were named after a person in my family file. A lot of these notes talk about the early history of the location, who the first settlers were, and what happened after my particular relative moved into the area. In some descriptions, these notes are one and two pages long. I’ve looked at such output in the Location Index and the very mixed appearance of the info being presented is not anything I would want to forward to a relative. It is for that reason that I wanted to be able to print out a Location Report that contained just these special locations. Using the Location Report, I can even sort out the locations by State or County so that notes about locations within the same geographic area would tend to stay together. I’ve waffled back and forth about including these occasional lengthy notes in the General Notes of a person or a marriage but I sometimes I feel as if they just don’t belong there because they don’t directly address the genealogical aspects of the family and are more closely tied solely to the history of the location. As the OP indicated, this historical information usually applies to more than one member of the family so you can’t make an arbitrary decision as to whom the notes would be included. And this is why I say that there is no easy way to obtain a clean looking Location Report without lots of effort to tag those locations. Just because one can include the notes in a Location Index doesn’t make that a good method. Brian in CA From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2015 4:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place to enter history of a location? Brian, You've missed an option. In the Book reports, you can include Location Notes in the Location Index. Cathy Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: I would like to be able to print out all these special history notes that I’ve added to locations because the bad news is that these notes added to Locations will not appear in any pedigree, ancestor or descendant report (unless it’s an option that I’ve somehow overlooked). You can create a special Location Report but its either all or only tagged locations. If you want only the special history notes printed in a report, then you need to tag each and every location with such notes. The only way to do that is to view the Master Location List and look for the X in the far right column labeled N for Notes. Tag those with the X in that column and then create your Location Report for only tagged locations. The problem is that if your list of locations is anything like mine, it will take a long time to scroll through all of them just looking for the relative few that have Notes. It sure would be nice if we could SORT the Master Location List based on any one of these 4 columns on the right side, thus getting all those with Notes grouped together at the top, but apparently Legacy allows sorting based only on City, County, State, or Country. Brian in CA *From:*Marg Strong [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Saturday, May 09, 2015 2:14 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Place to enter history of a location? Thank you. I found it! *From:*Susan Penn Groover <mailto:[email protected]> *Sent:*Saturday, May 09, 2015 5:01 PM &nb sp; *To:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> *Subject:*Re: [LegacyUG] Place to enter history of a location? Peggy, Legacy does have a place to enter the history of a location. I accessed from View> Master List> Location. You can then choose to Edit the specific location and there is an area that you can insert information of your choosing for location(s). Happy Hunting! Susan On 2015-05-09 10:22 AM, Marg Strong wrote: Does legacy have a place to enter the history of a location and, if not, can someone give me an idea of the best place to ; enter it. When a lot of ancestors come from one place it doesn't seem to belong in the notes for one ancestor. Thanks for suggestions! Peggy 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://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
