Just 2 cents here,
but I've never had a problem importing/exporting
ged.coms back and forth and never had a field
or location problem.
Hope this helps,
gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Hakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:26 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Back to Basics
> 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.
>
>
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