I've made a deliberate choice to enter "readable" locations for wall charts and PDF reports rather than uniform master locations. Geo database does not include essential counties for some provinces of Canada. Another deliberate choice is to enter one "report" name per individual that will survive file GEDCOM transfers.
Researchers with known (fixed) locations and specific dates for every event are lucky but many locations had name changes over time. The official lat/long of a city may be 20 miles or more from the family farm where important events took place a hundred years earlier. My family files are planned for unedited PDF output, one for each potential book or wall chart. There is less need to sort by location when data is entered in multiple files for branches and potential books. One of the early postings on the Legacy list mentioned how it took someone to remove repeated locations from a word processor book report. Check a Legacy book report for all events for someone who stayed a lifetime in the same Town, County, State, Country or a wall chart for a family which includes every event and not just simple name-birth-death. A family source says someone was born in "New York" in September 1827 but no way to find out where the family lived two months after their arrival (July 1827 passenger list.) -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon Chapman" > You are missing a lot of the power to maintain a consistent location list > by not using the Master Locations in Legacy. Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
