I started out, and have continued, using reverse order so all my lists come out easy to group. Example: USA, Ohio,Butler County, West Chester, street address I like this form for making search lists. On May 12, 2015 4:30 AM, "Steve via" <[email protected]> wrote: > I enter addresses with the street or other location in a reverse format > eg BRAINTREE, ESSEX, ENGLAND. 78 Lower Railway Street > > That way when I type brain and press F8 I get all of my Braintree > addresses, starting with the generic BRAINTREE, ESSEX, ENGLAND. > > I also have things like BRAINTREE, ESSEX. The Independent Chapel as a > location. > > I do regret having started all in upper case for the main section, but > haven't got the heart to change all of my locations, now. > > Regards > Steve > > On 11/05/2015 03:30, J. P. Gilliver (John) via wrote: > > In message <[email protected]>, Jim Dell via > > <[email protected]> writes: > >> Remember you can use F8 after you enter a few characters on each line > >> to find existing locations starting with those characters > > [] > > Though this works less well if you include the full address each time. I > > put "<village or town or city>, <county (UK) or state (USA)>, country", > > and any more detail (e. g. "47 Clarges Street") in the event notes for > > the resided event. > > > > (As well as making the F8 function work better, it also means if I do a > > "locations with events" report, I get things that happened in the same > > town/village listed together: the "locations with events" report becomes > > lots of single entries if I put the house number etc. in. Of course, > > this won't be relevant to those who don't _use_ the LWE report.) > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message >

In message <[email protected]om>, Jack Ray via <[email protected]> writes: >I started out, and have continued, using reverse order so all my lists come >out easy to group. >Example: USA, Ohio,Butler County, West Chester, street address >I like this form for making search lists. [] Yes, to some extent I wish I'd done that, and still think of changing it sometime. Unfortunately, that would make F8 a lot less use. If the F8 function - perhaps optionally - could match on a substring rather than just the start of a string, that could be useful ... (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.