John, You are missing extreme complexity and very confining entries. If you don't believe me I can point you to a program, which I abandoned, because of this problem. Contact me off line if you would like the name of the program and good luck to you if you decide to try it.
Legacy allows you to enter your locations in what ever way you like. You can enter "New York City" or "New York, New York", or "Queens County, New York", or "Richmond Hill, Queens County, New York" or "Probably New York". What ever suits you. I sure hope it stays that flexibile. In Legacy the entry remains your choice and your decision. I personally like it that way. I am not saying Legacy is percfect in every way. For my purposes it has one major flaw, which seems to be my personal opinion, since I have complained about this for all the years I have used the program. But no one else seems interested. So be it. But Legacy is still the easiest program to use, has the best interface and a great deal of flexibility. That flexibility makes the program extremely useable by all kinds of researchers. The program is basically stable, albeit with occassionally glitches, which beats the heck out of other genealogy software. My feeling is - don't try to make people march in lock step just because some individuals can't do exactly what they want. Besides, maybe the answer is in the sort method. Maybe this can be fixed enought to satisfy most with a more elaborate sort method. Just an idea. Just my thoughts. But I couldn't sit back and listen [read] all this complaining about a feature needing fixing which I don't consider broken. As a matter of fact I consider the way locations are handled now a plus feature. Claire ----- Original Message ----- From: "John R. Bayle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Back to Basics > In replying to my posting, Cathy wrote: > > <big snip> > > > Certainly, we don't want to go backwards and have separate fields/boxes > for > > each part of a location. > > Boy, Cathy you and I sure have different views of this issue! > I think a separate field for each location part is a good thing, just > like it's a good thing for names. > > Seems to me that it solves your sorting problems. You just say > Sort by counties, and all the Washington counties go together, > whether they were in the same state or not. Or you could > sort first on counties and then on states. Then all the Washington > counties in New York would be together and all the Washington > counties in Ohio wold be togther but the NY and OH counties > would be separate from each other, etc. > > Tell me what I'm missing here! > jr > > 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 > > 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
