online (which is where I look).
Thank you,
Trevor Carlson
Edmonton, AB
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current
Sounds like
Sounds like a great idea for the suggestion box.
Jane in Phoenix
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com> on behalf of
Ian Thomas <il.tho...@outlook.com>
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Cathy
Thanks for the information; I had noticed some posts here about reverse sorting
addresses, but I didn’t think it a
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?
Ian,
You can plot anything on the Bing maps in Legacy. Just highlight the location
you are mapping then right click on the map to put the pin in the right place.
I include add
You can always manually place the icon using right click on the correct
spot after dragging the map to the correct place. My trick when a place
will not plot correctly is to temporarily edit the name to get legacy to
plot the place near where I want. So for your first case I would
temporarily
Ian,
You can plot anything on the Bing maps in Legacy. Just highlight the
location you are mapping then right click on the map to put the pin in
the right place.
I include addresses, including farm names like your examples, in my
locations. Others don't.
Because I do this I always sort my
Does sorting locations country first help at all?
Jane in Phoenix
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Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 12:41 AM
To: legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Place names - olde vs current?
When people ask I always tell them there is no one way of doing anything
(only the best and most intuitive for you). The two key points are (1) know
what the output will look like - how do you want to use your reports,
charts, etc. - and then tweak the input to accomplish it; and (2) be
consistent
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting
When people ask I always tell them there is no one way of doing anything (only
the best and most intuitive for you). The two key points are (1) know what the
output will look like - how do you want to use your reports, charts, etc
On 21/02/2015 01:27, Jay Wilpolt wrote:
What they were saying is that in the Burial Place field, we should NOT
put the name of the cemetery, but instead put that in the Burial Place
address which is the field accessed by the + sign
The reason I do not do that (but put the complete address in
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting
When people ask I always tell them there is no one way of doing anything
(only the best and most intuitive for you). The two key points are (1) know
what the output will look like - how do you want to use your reports
Hi Jenny,
That's exactly why I don't use the Address fields except for
repositories and mailing addresses.
We each have to decide which standards we will follow and why. If we
don't follow some accepted standard we need to know what the
consequences are. In this case one of the consequences is
You are asking for a Genealogy program to perform the function of a Data
Manipulation program.
To get the results you desire, export the data to csv and then use a data
spreadsheet type program to manipulate your data.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:47 PM, kaytt ka...@sasktel.net wrote:
I have
I should add here my own idea that I hope might someday be implemented to
resolve many place name issues.
First, lets break down the place field into the individual components.
A field for Country
a field for State
a field for County
a field for Name
Then lets add another set of fields to help
Hi Kathy,
Your problem is that you are choosing the wrong sorting option.
Unless you strictly enter locations in the town, county, state,
country format which appears to suit most of the USA but doesn't suit
most of my locations, then you need to use the Right to Left sort. Then
so long as you
Jay, maybe OK for the States, but no good fir many other countries.
Ron Ferguson
Jay Wilpolt jaywilp...@aol.com wrote:
I should add here my own idea that I hope might someday be implemented to
resolve many place name issues.
First, lets break down the place field into the individual
As long as you are consistent with how many fields you use for each country
your Master Location List will sort the countries together properly. For
example, I use 4 fields for US, I use 3 for Germany, I use 4 for Poland and I
use 6 for France. I have no problem with sorting. Where you run
So long as you are consistent and always end with the country, there
isn't a problem. Just sort right to left and the places come together
whether or not you want who lived in a particular town or county or
country (or street)
Michelle says addresses don't belong in the location. However. I've
.
Michele
Technical Support
mich...@legacyfamilytree.com
www.legacyfamilytree.com
From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 5:03 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting
Michelle,
re: addresses and names
Ron,
can you explain why?
the names for the 4 main municipality location fields are just labels
and could be adjusted as needed.
Maybe they could be
City,
Parish,
County,
Country
Or even just
City, state, Country and have one field disabled
There are many ways that these could be adjusted so
Michelle,
re: addresses and names of building do not belong in the location field.
These belong in the address field.
I disagree that Legacy LOGICALLY handles addresses and places in the
ADDRESS field
The best example I can give is a cemetery.
If you added the cemetery name in the Burial
Gene,
Yes, My senior moment has caught up with me,
as one of the discussions (in a different thread) was about having
different Long/lat for each stone within a cemetery
and that Legacy has no way to handle that
as it either creates a new record (if some field differs)
or overwrites the previous
On 2/20/2015 6:35 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote:
The problem is the address function Does NOT give you one cemetery addresses
with everyone attached to it, it created one address record for EVERY burial,
I dont want 1200 st. Mary Cemetery address records
If this is the result you are getting you are
Gene,
This is an oft mis understood area.
What they were saying is that in the Burial Place field, we should NOT put
the name of the cemetery, but instead put that in the Burial Place
address which is the field accessed by the + sign
On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Gene Young
On 2/20/2015 8:27 PM, Jay Wilpolt wrote:
Gene,
This is an oft mis understood area.
What they were saying is that in the Burial Place field, we should NOT put
the name of the cemetery, but instead put that in the Burial Place address
which is the field accessed by the + sign
That is
Does Geo Location work with all of your countries when you use this scheme?
Bobby
From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:44 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting
As long as you
.
Michele
Technical Support
mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com mich...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.legacyfamilytree.com www.legacyfamilytree.com
From: Bobby Johnson [mailto:b...@brmemc.net]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:05 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG
Great!! Maybe you should record this procedure in the “Tips and Tricks” Legacy
web page.
Bobby
From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:47 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting
Yup
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting
Great!! Maybe you should record this procedure in the Tips and Tricks
Legacy web page.
Bobby
From: Michele/Support [mailto:mich...@legacyfamilytree.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 11:47 AM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
.
Michele
Technical Support
mich...@legacyfamilytree.com
www.legacyfamilytree.com
From: Jay Wilpolt [mailto:jaywilp...@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 5:03 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place names sorting
Michelle,
re: addresses and names of building
Thank you everyone for your ideas. Sorting right to left works for the results
I was after.
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On 9/8/2012 8:54 AM, Randy Clark wrote:
bad link
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, gen_quest gen_qu...@yahoo.ca
mailto:gen_qu...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Following on from the Washington DC thread that started discussing
Middlesex and London, whenever I am in doubt as to the jurisdiction
Just remove one of the http://
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
From: Randy Clark
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 3:54 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names in England and Wales
bad link
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 10:13 AM, gen_quest gen_qu
On 2012/09/08 16:13, gen_quest wrote:
http:///http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/index.html http:///
Let's give the right url http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/genuki/places/index.html :-)
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Mike Fry
Johannesburg (g)
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On 30/09/2010 04:14, Jacki Richey wrote:
I don't understand why you say that you can only get headstone
pictures with a custom event. To the right of the BURIED line is a
+, which allows one to add a picture. Am I missing something?
Burial pictures - and Birth, Baptism and Death - which are
Jenny M Benson wrote:
On 30/09/2010 04:14, Jacki Richey wrote:
I don't understand why you say that you can only get headstone
pictures with a custom event. To the right of the BURIED line is a
+, which allows one to add a picture. Am I missing something?
Burial pictures - and Birth,
...@gmail.com
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Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Nothing wrong with thatisn't it part of the NOTES field? That's
what I had in mind...
Jerry
On 9/29/2010 12:54 AM, BMcL Robinson wrote:
Hi Jerry
What is wrong
Jerry,
Please let us be clear, fields that are really designed only for the
traditional LOCATION / PLACE divisions. These fields are not traditional.
They are based, as I have said previously, on an artificial convention which
arranged for a location to comprise 4 fields. Whilst this works in
I'm one of the folks who use the Buried/Location field for cemetery names
locations, and initially this did indeed cause my master locations list to be
quite a mess. However, I got rid of the jumble by entering every cemetery as
follows (example):
Cem: Trinity Cemetery, Sylvania, DeKalb,
gives a
much more accurate result (providing the road still exists!).
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
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From: Mark Klan m...@markabout.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:16 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG
On 2010/09/29 12:07, Ron Ferguson wrote:
I doubt if the use of a colon will make any different to the mapping
function, and the rest of the location certainly doesn't - it is basically
the format I always use, and I do use the mapping facility. In fact from the
point of view of mapping, using
Nothing wrong with thatisn't it part of the NOTES field? That's
what I had in mind...
Jerry
On 9/29/2010 12:54 AM, BMcL Robinson wrote:
Hi Jerry
What is wrong with the Address field/table for cemeteries etc - then you can
edit the details from one place, select them from the list
: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:16 AM
To:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
I'm one of the folks who use the Buried/Location field for cemetery names
locations, and initially this did indeed cause my master locations list
to be quite a mess. However, I
bearjerca...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:30 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Mark and Ron - Interesting discussion about the use of Cem: - I'll
have to experiment with that, but I think I might still prefer the use
of the NOTES button
Jenny,
I enter burial/cemetery events so I can attach Headstone pictures that
print on reports. I also use the address along with location. In the
location field I just use City,County, State, Country. In the address
fields I can put the complete address and GPS coordinates of the
cemetery ( That
Ron:
Good information in that blog ... thanks for linking to it. A question,
though ... why is the addition of UK at the end of the location
unacceptable? Couldn't one write, in your example, Southampton, Hampshire,
England, United Kingdom in that the city of Southampton is in Hampshire
County,
Message -
From: Jerry bearjerca...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Nothing wrong with thatisn't it part of the NOTES field? That's
what I had in mind...
Jerry
On 9/29/2010 12:54 AM, BMcL
Scott, I'm interested in what Ron will have to say on that also. But
a lot of us use Legacy to maintain our database, but also use something
akin to TNG - The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding to create a
website. With TNG, place names are sorted according to the divisions
used,
Message -
From: G Oliver gcoliv...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names
Jenny,
I enter burial/cemetery events so I can attach Headstone pictures that
print on reports. I also use the address along
On 9/29/2010 11:40 AM, Ward Walker wrote:
It does not show on web pages.
Ward, speaking about the ADDRESS + NOTES next to the BURIED LOCATION and
DATE fields. It depends on what you are referring to - perhaps if you
create web pages directly from Legacy, it does not show up (?) - but if
you
4:33 PM
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Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Ron:
Good information in that blog ... thanks for linking to it. A question,
though ... why is the addition of UK at the end of the location
unacceptable? Couldn't one write, in your example, Southampton, Hampshire
On 2010/09/29 17:33, Scott Hall wrote:
Good information in that blog ... thanks for linking to it. A question,
though ... why is the addition of UK at the end of the location
unacceptable? Couldn't one write, in your example, Southampton,
Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in that the city
the place. However the place which I have problems with are
usually too small to be on the maps, or disappeared years ago!
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
From: Jerry
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:56 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Scott
, or disappeared years ago!
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
*From:* Jerry bearjerca...@gmail.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:56 PM
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Scott, I'm interested in what Ron will have to say on that also.Â
On 29/09/2010 16:40, Ward Walker wrote:
From previous LUG discussions, I had been under the impression that the
Address fields (at the '+' signs) had the disadvantage of not showing up in
certain output products (as opposed to the Location fields). A quick
experiment with a burial address
://www.fergys.co.uk/
*From:* Jerry mailto:bearjerca...@gmail.com
*Sent:* Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:56 PM
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Scott, I'm interested in what Ron will have to say on that also. But
a lot
But unless the event took place in the modern UK, why would you even consider
putting it into the location field? The country such as England should be the
last entry in the location field. So my grandmother was born in 1881 in:
Saint Vincent Villa, Lynton, Devon, England
And yes,
Hi Mary. I understand what you are doing. I just don't like it
because it creates many different location names for the exact same
place. Hence, we decided to modify the location, when necessary, by
using the extra (+) note field. Just seems to me that if you want to
find every person born
://www.fergys.co.uk/
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From: Jerry bearjerca...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
Hi Mary. I understand what you are doing. I just don't like it
because it creates
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From: Ron Ferguson ronfergy@tiscali.co.uk
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:42 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PLACE NAMES
. we are very protective of our history and historic locations, one
only
has
historic data, it will not be found if one looks in the wrong place.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
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From: Jerrybearjerca...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:28 PM
To:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG
I don't understand why you say that you can only get headstone pictures with a
custom event. To the right of the BURIED line is a +, which allows one to add
a picture. Am I missing something?
Jacki
From: wnkwal...@rogers.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG
Tim, why do you create a 'burial' event when Legacy has a place for buried
right after died?
From: spa...@xmission.com
Jenny,
Would one enter the Cemetery like this ?
Forrest Lawn Cemetery, L. Street, Plot 5.4, Cypress, Orange, California, USA
I'm like Sherry. I create a 'Burial'
Hi Jerry
What is wrong with the Address field/table for cemeteries etc - then you can
edit the details from one place, select them from the list (second
application etc), and show list to find out who is there? I thought that
Notes would be less friendly.
Cheers, Brett
BMcL Robinson, Hamilton
As explained in the Help file for the Geo Location Database,
The Core field shows the regular location name as found in the list.
The Core + field adds any other location pieces that were attached to
the incoming place name.
There is an extensive discussion with examples in the Help file.
On 2010/09/27 17:34, Cheryl Rothwell wrote:
What does Core and Core + mean in the address fields? I searched
for it in Help without success. Ditto the index to the printed
manual.
I found this in the Help File - press the Help button when the window
shows the Core and Core+ fields.
Selecting
I searched on core as keyword. I would not have thought of Geo
Location. Of course it makes sense now. :-) Thank you for bearing
with me.
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So is this later the best way to enter cemetery locations?
Thanks,
Jacki in Morelia, Mexico
From: mike...@iafrica.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:40:17 +0200
On 2010/09/27 17:34, Cheryl Rothwell wrote:
What
I enter the cemetery name as an Event. That's easy to search and
create reports on. Some users enter the cemetery name and address info
using the Address feature for the Burial field. Click on the + at
the end of the field to enter the event address.
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy
On 27/09/2010 19:13, Sherry/Support wrote:
I enter the cemetery name as an Event. That's easy to search and
create reports on. Some users enter the cemetery name and address info
using the Address feature for the Burial field. Click on the + at
the end of the field to enter the event address.
, and is placed in the most
sensible place in all reports.
Ron Ferguson
http://www.fergys.co.uk/
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From: Jenny M Benson ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:26 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names
Jenny,
Would one enter the Cemetery like this ?
Forrest Lawn Cemetery, L. Street, Plot 5.4, Cypress, Orange, California, USA
I'm like Sherry. I create a 'Burial' event.
Tim
Don't eat burrito's after 2am
On 9/27/2010 12:26 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote:
On 27/09/2010 19:13, Sherry/Support wrote:
Tim,
Personally I use: Plot, Cemetery Name, Road, Town, etc.
Ron Ferguson
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From: Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 7:41 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place Names
Jenny,
Would
On 27/09/2010 20:59, Ron Ferguson wrote:
Personally I use: Plot, Cemetery Name, Road, Town, etc.
I do likewise.
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Jenny M Benson
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