Some questions about locations in Legacy.
Hi All I am very confused by the above. From reading the manual etc I get the impression that all locations should be of the form...
City, County, State/Province, Country
Theses should be provided with commas left to indicate missing data.
Okay that's fine but what do I do with house names/numbers, street names and districts etc.
For example I live in England and was born just round the corner from Penny Lane in Liverpool (Yes as in the Beatles).
Anyway I lived @ 15 Gorsedale road, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom. So how do I map that to Legacy's standards.
This all gets more complicated when I try to sync with Family Search :-(
Anyway I hope someone can help as I don't want to modify some 5000 odd locations and then find they don't fit.
Keith Drury Myers
Royal Forest of Dean
Hi Keith. The standard is 4 places in the Address. That might be City, Provence, State, Country. The street Address is put into where I have placed the arrows
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When dealing with Familysearch The Event Residence becomes more important
ReplyDeleteAs an American (not a local so I just want my opinion to be accurately valued), I've always considered Liverpool as a city. So Moseley Hill would be a suburb or district of Liverpool. So I would put 15 Gorsedale Road, Moseley Hill as the detail the rest as the location. If you really wanted to simplify things you could use England as the country just as NB you could overly complicate things by taking a step in the other direction and using the Commonwealth as the country. Then England, Quebec, and the Northern Territories, would all be counties/Provinces. The point being that the most important thing is consistency. Which ever model you choose you use it every time. I don't think any one will say your data and reasoning are flawed because you said the country was England and not the UK. Or EU. Or the Commonwealth. Or the UN......
ReplyDeleteEntering locations is a common topic in the Facebook Legacy group and everyone seems to have their own way of doing it. Like a lot of other people, I don’t use the Legacy address fields pointed out above because I like my addresses to be easily visible. If you put your house numbers at the end of the street, then the streets will be grouped together. I enter mine as:
ReplyDeleteMain Street West (123), Any Town, County, Pennsylvania, USA
Other people put a comma instead of the parentheses but I like the parentheses so they stand out better.
Legacy is able to handle more than 4 fields. If I have a hospital, cemetery, funeral home, etc, I put that in front of the town.
drive.google.com - Places.avi - Google Drive A video on how to add places
ReplyDeleteKeith Drury Myers as another UK resident my suggestion would be as follows.
ReplyDeleteIn the place add Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom as Family Search will recognise this. Put the rest of the address as suggested above. I also use Family Historian and this is how I would add it there. When using the search options on the websites they rarely go below city or down level.
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteThanks for all of your contributions.
In particular thanks to Garry for the link to Geoff Rasmussen's tutorial and Kelly for the numbering tip. As far as I can see Legacy is inconsistent in the handling of Locations :-(
It uses different ways of entering location for...
1. B.M.D & Burials
2. Residence
3. Marriages
The overall mantra appears to be that all locations should be of the form...
City, County, State/Province, Country
e.g. Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
1. B.M.D & Burials...
These can have the standard location as above plus an address entry to supply the more detailed information. However the format of the address entry isn't exactly consistent with the standard location.
2. Residence...
These can have the standard location as above plus the more detailed info in the Description field.
3. Marriages...
These only have a location field no address entry or description. Therefore you have to choose either the full location or limit it to the standard location.
The only way I can think of making this all consistent is as follows...
1. B.M.D & Burials...
Simply enter the standard location as above.
Forget using the address field.
Add a Residence for each of the above events.
2. Residence...
Treat as above.
3. Marriages...
Simply enter the standard location as above.
Add a Residence for each marriage events.
This would mean the Master Location list would only consist of standard location as above.
All other location info would be in the Residence event description field.
This leaves me with one major problem...
How do I get a report of the detailed locations? :-(
Any comments suggestions or corrections most welcome.
Keith Drury Myers