In replying to my posting, John Murray wrote:
> Here in England we don't have states so how would we sort. I think that
the
> programmers should be careful not to make this wonderful program USA
centric
> or it will lose lot of customers
In the method I have in mind you would never use the "States" field in your
genealogy then, at least not for your English events. You could use the
term
Shire or County or whatever. You could then sort on those location types.
I really hadn't very explicitly designed my scheme when I first posted on
this
thread, but now I can see a way to do it.
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.
IMO this design eliminates the need for placeholder
commas. The program just looks at the two parts
of each place name and writes out so and so was
born on July 21, 1876 in the Village of Lake Luzerne,
in the Town of Queensbury, in the County of Warren,
in the State of New York in the Country of USA.
For those concerned about the tediousness of doing
data entry, under this scheme, I'm sure the clever programmers
at Millenia could come up with default schemes and other
methods to minimize the pain. That's what I was hinting at
when I said this scheme could keep the programmers busy
for a while.
jr
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