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Hi - the issue of keeping a persons 'old address' has come up several times = and a back end approach we will be trying out is to have an 'old address' location type - so if an address needs updating backend then the admin simply flips the existing address to 'old address' location type and adds a new one.

So I just wondered what would be the options for doing this for public forms eg Donate that are using Address fields in Profiles - ie if a person is updating an address (whether it is pre-filled in the profile because they are logged in or used a checksum -  or not) would a hook be able to be used to say
'if the person has data in this address field, then change that address field Location Type to be Old Address, and create a new Location Type of 'home' (or whatever the form is set to collect) and put this new data in that Location Type field?

Just a thought as it would cover a bit of what some of our clients miss by way of ChangeLog capturing this info.