That's why it would be nice if you could link notes and other items to more than one person instead of copying it a zillion times and attaching them.
On that note, I wish Legacy would allow you to access source-citations in one place to make changes to the one that would change it for all persons that use the same source citation like FTM does. This would be useful for applying one note to others as well. Maybe in one of the next versions? I usually put the notes with the husband as well because I don't want to duplicate a note for everyone then make changes and have to manually find everyone else attached to that note. Copying to the Legacy clipboard isn't a good option for notes. Can't we make a shared event like with marriages and have the note attach to both the husband and wife? The only bad thing about putting anything under marriage is that it would be confusing for those who never married. A shared event, if possible, would be the solution. Bill Boswell -----Original Message----- From: Brian L. Lightfoot [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 2:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] General Notes This is an annoyance that has bothered me for a long time. Some people tend to put �family notes� with the husband but that certainly isn�t totally correct. What happens when the husband dies and the wife becomes the head-of-household over all her children. Do the family notes then migrate over to her general notes? Not a good solution in any scenario. I�ve tended to favor using the �marriage notes� in the belief that the note information there should describe the married life of the husband and wife and not just the marriage event itself. In that fashion I can say something along the lines of "that they were married in XYZ Church by Rev. Soandso, but they lived next door to their parents until one of their children died. They then moved from Alaska to Hawaii looking for gold. They started a pie making business with the wife baking the pies and the husband driving the delivery truck. All of the children assisted in cleaning up the kitchen. They all retired as millionaires when a toy company bought them out and thus started the Frisbee fad." Where else can you put that kind of dribble? Brian in CA (Please remember - plain text only in the LUG) ------------------------------------------------- From: Lloyd Friedrick [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 8:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] General Notes Notes can readily be added to each individual, but I would like to record some notes or information that applies to a family group. Is there a place where I can store these notes for additional reporting at a later date. lloyd friedrick in Victoria, British Columbia Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
