Yes, but what happens when you try to import/export GEDCOM files that don't use these same field designations?! If Legacy provided some way to map these fields to standard GEDCOM field descriptions when importing/exporting them, then it would work. Otherwise it would be a nightmare. You could end up with people named Massachusetts Boston!
Jane Hakes > -----Original Message----- > What follows is a bit long and perhaps a bit technical. > > Legacy would have a group of Location Fields for each Location. > They would have the name Location1, Location2... LocationN. > Each of these fields would have two subfields, a Name and the Data. > So in Access Database terms there'd be a table or table > fragment with Location1Name and Location1Data fields etc. > In the Location1Name field a user could put "Address". > In the Location1Data field a user could put "25 Main Street" > > Another user could do things differently and In the > Location1Name field put "City" > In the Location2Data field put "Albany" > Note this varies for EACH EVENT. So the user could use the > above scheme for one event and the following for another > event Location1Name field = "Village" > Location2Data field = "Lake George". > So this is completely flexible and instantly international, > because even the types of the jurisdictions change and they > can do so from any event to any other event. One could then > search for all "Villages" describing a certain location level. > > So you could find and mark all events or people who had > events with "County" in a certain place location type. Then > Search among the marked records only for place location name > of "Cork". These two searches would yield all the folks who > had County Cork as a location. 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
