Susan and Sandra,
I'm still missing something.
1. I can see how it's useful if I have exact latitude and longitude, either from
GPS or from studying online maps, satellite, and arial photos. I'll try that.
2. It seems useless - which means I'm missing something - for historical
locations. Let me give a couple of examples:
A. Andrew is from Albemarle County Virginia, and shows on the Fredericksville
Parish section of the 1820 census. The geo location thing shows no listing for
Fredericksville Parish in Albemarle County. For my location I have typed
"Albemarle County VA" and don't see any way of improving on that.
B. I have various single-family pioneer cemetaries for Callaway County Missouri.
They aren't in any town that Geo Location lists for Callaway County. They're
simply on someone's family farm. I have plat references, which I could convert
to latitude/longitide,
no... wait... I don't see any way to enter latitude/longitude.
Okay... perhaps it's useful when I have a specific current-day township?
Ed
> I use it every time I find a new location in my files. Just the other day I
> had a location in Germany and entered what I had then clicked on the geo
> and ta-da got the correct wording. When I first imported "ALL" of the
> locations into my files, I decided that I was going to do it however geo
> data base did it thus where I live is now Sacramento, Sacramento,
> California, USA, I had it Sacramento, Sacramento, CA
>
> but with the way that geo lists it I know instantly if I have checked it
> against the geo location list or not because there is an USA at the end .So,
> I guess I use it to make sure that I have the right county and the right
> spelling for the location I WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT IT
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