Brian is correct about the use of the + sign beside the burial information for adding notes, pictures, etc without creating a similar event name. However, I believe that there is a problem with getting any of this note information exported with a gedcom file to Ancestry, RootsWeb, etc. Seems like many of the built-in gedcom types will ignore these notes unless the user does some customization to the gedcom settings. I've been experimenting around with this for the past several months but its not really something I'm jumping right into. Whenever I can definitively state what is right and what is wrong, I'll post at that date. I know in the past there have discussions about how to have the name of the cemetery show up. Some keep it in the name of the location (Cemetery, City, County, State), while others add the cemetery name to the burial notes, and still others create an event called Cemetery. I kept all my cemetery names in the burial notes section until I noticed that none of it was showing up on RootsWeb.
Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 8:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with Potential Problems Helen If you click on the + sign beside the burial information on the person's edit screen you can add notes to the "normal" burial event without having to create a special event called burial in the list of extra events for the person. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. [email protected] wrote: > Bob, > > The Warning tab for Burial after Death is set for 30 days and the > longest anyone had to wait for burial was about a week. However I did > uncheck the box under Problems that says "Event/Fact date after burial > date" and that solves the problem. I hesitate to do it in case I do > actually mistakenly enter a valid problem after a death date. > > Dennis, > > >It sounds like you entered the burial as an Event/Fact instead of as > >the standard Burial event. > There's a difference? Are you suggesting that I should have chosen > "Burial" from the list of Events first before entering Burial notes? If > so, I plead laziness as it's far easier and faster to type Burial once, > then Bur ever after that, rather than scan a huge long list of event > names. Wonder if this is what caused the problem. > > Using the "Exclude from potential problems" would negate the purpose of > this function and I hesitate to use it in case there are other problems > with a person's entry. I'd much rather not use the Exclude function and > plough through a long list of "Event after Death" problems, knowing that > absolutely everything had been checked out. I know, I can't have it both > ways but better to err on the safer side. > > >Or enter the burial info in the place Legacy expects to find it. > It's in the Notes section in the Events screen. Should I have put the > burial info somewhere else? > > Helen 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
