RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy (I hijacked the thread to facilitate posting - sorry)

2010-01-30 Thread Jan Roberts
All right, I give up, all appears to working as it should this morning! Cheers Jan -Original Message- From: Brian/Support [mailto:br...@legacyfamilytree.com] Sent: Thursday, 28 January 2010 1:41 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy (I hijacked the thread to facilitate posting - sorry)

2010-01-27 Thread Brian/Support
Jan, Are you certain that you are looking at the right source list for the generation? When you elect the sources at the end of each generation the numbering of the citations begins at 1 for each generation. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-18 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/01/18 02:57, John S. Adams wrote: To put your somewhat yankophobe mind at ease, if it were Americanized, it would be Durham County. It seems to me more like Irishization (or Irishisation, if you prefer). Of course! Small apology :-) I'd forgotten that Ireland was once part of England

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-18 Thread Bill Wood
Thanks Ron, You are absolutely correct. I used a poor example. The important thing to understand from my previous message is that this alternative way to enter place names will also cater for specific addresses. According to the training videos, Legacy designed this screen for the entry of

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-18 Thread brittongen
Oops... Go to Google Maps, find a place of interest, LEFT click a spot... kb Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-18 Thread Alastair Lack
Can I perhaps offer another view of Ron's perfectly accurate description of the British Isles? The British Isles are a geographical group of islands consisting of two sovereign nations, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (U.K.) and The Republic of Ireland (Great) Britain

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Bill Wood
Thanks Norm, How do I get that database please. I have tried verifying the locations using geolocations button as recommended in the instruction CD ... and Banff, Banffshire, Scotland then becomes Banff, Banff, , Scotland other small towns like Portknockie have similar results

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Jack Earnshaw
and that is a shame. The users don’t have to be Jack From: Bill Wood [mailto:steamingb...@gmail.com] Sent: 17 January 2010 04:42 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy Thankyou Elizabeth - I will try your suggestion and put Scotland

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Elizabeth Cunningham
Physical Locations in Legacy Thankyou Elizabeth - I will try your suggestion and put Scotland in as a State with United Kingdom as the Country and see if the Towns are then recognised. I dont think my Grandad would be impressed with Scotland being demoted from Country to State - but that can

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Ron Ferguson
- Original Message - From: Bill Wood To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: 17 January 2010 04:41 Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy Thankyou Elizabeth - I will try your suggestion and put Scotland

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Joyce Guasch
and Germany From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 7:44 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy Please, Bill, resist the temptation just to fit

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread saludevil
I've been struggling with this myself. What is the correct way to write an address in England? For instance, in one of my files I have.. Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK How would this be written correctly? Thank you for any help, Sally Miller Hindley In a message dated

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Joy
Sally In regards to Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, County Durham UK Both Stanhope and Bishop Auckland are place names, about 10 miles apart. So I would put Stanhope, DUR. and either England or Eng. DUR is the Chapman County code for Durham. Most people who do Genealogy if they have English

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread CE Wood
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy I've been struggling with this myself. What is the correct way to write an address in England? For instance, in one of my files I have.. Stanhope, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, UK How would

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Teresa Keough
choose to do. I am trimming the original message and hopefully this is in plain text. Teresa -Original Message- From: CE Wood [mailto:wood...@msn.com] Sent: Sunday, 17 January, 2010 3:08 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy Bishop

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Mike Fry
On 2010/01/18 00:37, Teresa Keough wrote: I don't know if this will help or add to the confusion but at familysearch.org labs they have a program called Standard Finder that is attempting to come up with standards for place names, people names, etc. It'll probably help those on the west side

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread John S. Adams
Fry mike...@iafrica.com Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 1:52 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy Second: A matter of personal choice. The County Durham, whilst being correct, grates with me, because it smacks of Americanisation. It's

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Bill Wood
Sandy, I believe the correct way to do this would be to hit the little plus sign at the extreme right hand edge of the line where you are trying to enter the data. This then allows you to enter the address in any format you like and add notes. This is useful for recording things like street

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-17 Thread Bill Wood
Thankyou Everybody for your comments, I have raised this issue with the Legacy Technical support team, and am expecting a reply within a few days. If there is a database somewhere that allows lookup of Technical SUpport then you should be able to check progress or workarounds on this ticket

RE: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-16 Thread elizabeth rivera
the choice of changing to new name or telling it to ignore the problem. As you can see, I am not very technical, but just making a friendly suggestion. Elizabeth EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:51:56 +1100 Subject: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical

Re: [LegacyUG] Mapping Physical Locations in Legacy

2010-01-16 Thread Norman Weston
Bill, I think you need to download the european geo database. I just went to master list locations and added Banff,scotland and geo code took me to the correct place. Norm 2010/1/17 Bill Wood steamingb...@gmail.com: Hello, I bought a mapping package with Legacy. It is not user friendly or