In message <3B5AE821160A4496B043217B25019C24@JimRamaleyPC>, Jim Ramaley <jramaley@comcast.net> writes: >John, > >I am not in favor of structural changes to a program to accommodate a >perceived need when that need can be easily handled with a work-around. > >The issue seems to be that folks want to use the Location field in ways >that were not intended. Many of the improvements/additions to the prog. have been as a result of suggestions from users. John is of course free to do whatever he likes!, but often incorporates suggestions if he thinks they are a good idea - or even sometimes if he doesn't, if they can be done easily. (Thanks John; I think some of mine you've implemented may come in that category!) As for "in ways that were not intended", you'd be _amazed_ how various people use things - and, they _don't_ think they are using them in ways that were not intended! [] >There are at least two ways that greater precision can be given in >specifying the location for an event. > >1. Events have a source field. The source screen has several fields >that could be populated to make the citation more geographically >precise. For example, if one wants to specify the section, lot, and >plot number for a grave, there are comment fields, text fields, and >page / reel number fields [that's what I use]. These print out on >reports and you would want to cite a source anyway. Now that _I_ would consider to be using something in a way it wasn't intended: to me, location information doesn't belong in any part of the source. However, you have the right to use it how you wish! (I record village/town, county/state, country in the location field, and finer detail - such as house number/street name, or I suppose plot number/cemetery name though I don't have any of those, in the notes for that event; however, that's just _my_ way of doing it, though it seems several others do something similar.) [] >for understanding, I use "Heidelberg Twp, Lehigh (formerly Northampton) >Co, PA" I don't know "Twp"; I just _assume_ that "Co" means county; and I'm guessing that "PA" is an American state. But certainly not everyone would know. [] One of the suggestions in this thread was that the location field be split into (say) three; my suggestion was that that be made optional, probably on a per-event basis. And I anticipate that doing that would involve quite a lot of work, so I suspect it won't happen. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf once described by Eccentrica Golumbits as the best bang since the big one ... (first series, fit the second)