Hi Ian
One thing to watch out for is the Registration Districts in
the BMD Civil Registration lists. These cover a number of parishes, from 1
to 20+, and a number of villages/towns. Frequently they do not appear in the
Legacy list since the name does not match any village or town. The best way
is to use the Registration District as a name and try to find where it
actually is (or was) from the list of parishes that Ancestry can give you.
I got caught on that looking for Milton in Kent. There is a
parish called Milton next to Gravesend and another just north of
Sittingbourne, about 15 miles east, which is the name for the Milton
Registration District. I got the wrong one!!
Regards
Chris
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ian Thomas
Sent: 10 September 2016 10:33
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding placenames to Legacy locations
Thanks Chris - exactly what I want. I'll get started on a few of them.
Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Saturday, 10 September 2016 6:33 PM
To: 'Legacy User Group' <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding placenames to Legacy locations
Hi
From the locations list, select the one that you want to
change and then click the Edit button at the bottom.
At the bottom of the window you can explicitly set the Latitude and
Longitude settings for the location.
I normally use Google Maps, right click on the location and click on What's
here? In the list.
That puts a window at the bottom with the coordinates in degree and decimal
formats, which not what Legacy needs.
Select and copy that back into the location search and hit Enter.
You will then get it redisplayed in the location Legacy expects - degree
minute second format that you can copy and put into the Legacy form.
I keep on having to do that for locations that are not in the Legacy
database, which can be very bad for UK locations.
Regards
Chris
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Ian Thomas
Sent: 10 September 2016 09:01
To: [email protected]
Subject: [LegacyUG] Adding placenames to Legacy locations
Although Help says this is possible, it's not what I thought it meant; and
clicking the Geo-coding button to have Bing Maps have another try doesn't
work for the placename I want to add.
I have a locality in the Australian State of South Australia, called
Linfield.
Legacy/Bing Maps gives me Lindfield (a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia).
The 2012 Gazetteer for Australia can give me the geographic coordinates as
follows
http://www.ga.gov.au/place-names/
Linfield
SA
U
-35 8
139 41
Is it possible for me to enter those into Legacy?
This is not a one-off for me (there are other placenames that I could "enter
into Legacy's system", if it were possible).
Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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