Ian,
You can plot anything on the Bing maps in Legacy. Just highlight the
location you are mapping then right click on the map to put the pin in
the right place.
I include addresses, including farm names like your examples, in my
locations. Others don't.
Because I do this I always sort my location list from right to left when
I need places close to each other together on the list.
RE recording historical names. You might want to read this for one
suggestion.
http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-01014
Sometimes I simply put the current name in brackets.
Newcastle (now Toodyay), Western Australia, Australia.
Cathy
Ian Thomas wrote:
What’s the best practice for preserving the older place names while
still mapping them accurately?
An Australian example, the current ton of Toodyay near Perth in
Western Australia was known as Newcastle, and I have some people with
that connection, around the late 1800s.
Also commonly used by country people then and now, is their property
name (pastoral/grazing/cropping, etc) – for example, “Summerhill”, New
Norcia, Western Australia, Australia (or, “Pankee” – also close to New
Norcia). I tend to record as shown, but I “lose” the ability to place
them geographically via Legacy.
Ian Thomas
Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia
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