While I like John's suggestion, and it would work well within Legacy, it seems it would have to export via Gedcom as a concatenated text string for compatibility with other programs i.e. the same as what happens now. I doubt that Gedcom could handle the field descriptors. Still, maybe this is not a showstopper, though.
Cheers, Rob
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane Hakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 7:26 AM
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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