My sincere thanks to all those who responded to my question.
I now have new vigor and drive to go in and fix all of this.
Regards from Valerie in sunny Sydney.
Researching: BEDDY, CULLODEN, DYAS and ROWAN in Dublin, Wicklow
Wexford - please ???
Have you unlocked the real power of
What do you do about sourcing info-- let's say you have a source for the
location but not for the date. How do you indicate it's YOUR guesstimate
and that the source is silent on the matter (since Legacy groups date
location together as far as sources go for births, deaths, etc)?
From:
Pat,
Good point and I should have included that as well. Here is a real example...
I have one Master Source as follows:
Source List Name: Estimated Dates
Author: Mitch Mackrory
Publication Facts: Not Published
When I use the single Master Source, I cite it and record as follows:
Details:
would put: full name.
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From: Pat H [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] About dates
What do you do about sourcing info-- let's say you have a source for the
location
Detail/Detail Information I
would put: full name.
- Original Message -
From: Pat H [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 3:48 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] About dates
What do you do about sourcing info-- let's say you have a source
, that
the reader looks at the source notes.)
Kirsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 12:49 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] About dates
What do you do about sourcing
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] About dates
We do understand. Try this:
Hover your mouse over the kids, and right click.
Select Children's Settings.
You order the kids by highlighting them, and using the Order buttons
(on the right side) to move them up or down
Valeris Garton wrote
I have many people in my database that I do not know when they were
born nor when they died but have an idea as to when they were around
e.g. in a directory, witness to a marriage or last child born etc.
How does everyone handle this problem.
I would just use Before
@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] About dates
Oh dear no.
It was nothing to do with children's dates. I have obviously confused
everyone.
If I have a John CULLODEN in a 1798 directory this is going to tell me
that he was at a particular place at a certain time but this will not
appear in my index so
I went through my data, and put in Estimated birthdates for everyone
So the format, for instance, would be
Birth: Est 1822
This is different from my Calculated birthdates, and my About dates.
(Calculated means I have their age at some point in time... About generally
means that someone
of a brother
or sister, etc.
Leo
From: Jenny M Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] About dates
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:19:30 +0100
Valeris Garton wrote
I have many people in my database that I do
Valerie,
What I do is use whatever information I have to narrow down dates.
For example, once I have a child (any child) in a family, I assume it
is the eldest child and that the parents were likely married a year
prior to this. Let's say the child was born in 1856. I set the date
for the
Valerie,
I do the same as Heather. I use estimated dates, and this helps me
distinguish everyone, plus it helps people who are searching my tree
in WorldConnect online so they can immediately discount a match if the
estimated date is 50 or 100 years off of who they are looking for. (It
also helps
I have many people in my database that I do not know when they were born
nor when they died but have an idea as to when they were around e.g. in
a directory, witness to a marriage or last child born etc.
How does everyone handle this problem.
If I look at the index I could have 7 John CULLODENS
We do understand. Try this:
Hover your mouse over the kids, and right click.
Select Children's Settings.
You order the kids by highlighting them, and using the Order buttons
(on the right side) to move them up or down.
This works fine. If you ever add dates to just a few of them later, and
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