Kirsten, If you have a way of doing something which suits you and is future proof, ie. will suit you should you wish to publish reports, write a book, publish a website etc. then fine, no one would wish to dictate how you should do this. However your question was
"It appears the main uses for Event entries would be to produce (1) narrative reports and, (2) timelines, but I'd never want a narrative produced directly from Legacy, and have a different method for creating timelines when they're needed. What are some of the other compelling reasons for listing Events for individuals?" What both Jenny and I will agree on is that they are not the same thing, and that is the compelling reason for having both. Neither makes any sense if it stands on its own. At the end of the day it is up to each person to make their own choices. Ron Ferguson Kirsten Bowman wrote: > I follow the logic in both Ron's and Jenny's arguments, and theirs > may be one of those situations where there is no "right way," but > it's missing the point of the original question. > > Along with the full source citation, I've chosen to transcribe the > text from the record as it appears using the Text/Comments field for > that purpose. In reports, this text appears in a paragraph below the > core citation. My question is this: What is the benefit to creating > an Event to display the information (with the record and location > being the source for that Event) rather than simply having the text > included with the source citation? I realize that this won't convert > to a narrative (but don't care), and that it won't create a timeline > (I do those differently anyway), but are there other reasons for > creating a list of Events? > > Kirsten > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 5:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Uses For Events? > > > Jenny M Benson wrote: >> Ron Ferguson wrote >>> I *never* create Census Events for the simple reason that the Source >>> would duplicate the Event. My Events comprise the information which >>> I got from the census, eg. residence, occupation and maybe even >>> name, date of birth etc. The census itself is only the source. >> >> On the other hand, I think one can argue (I would!) that "X was >> enumerated in the nnnn Census of ..." is an Event/Fact and one could >> even say it was a Fact (1) that "X gave the following information to >> the Census Enumerator ..." and the Enumerator's Book is the Source >> for that Event/Fact. >> >> (1) Using the word "Fact" in the sense that Legacy uses it, rather >> than meaning an absolute and undeniable truth, knowing as we do that >> Census Enumerators were prone to make errors, misread handwriting, >> etc! > > Yes Jenny, I did did pick the census quite deliberately, because > there are > definitely the two ways of looking at it. Both are, in my view, > perfectly > valid. Indeed, one could muddy the waters even further by suggesting > that > even the enumerator's book is only a record of what has been > transcribed > from a census form submitted to the household and completed by anyone > who > could write, or from verbal information given to the enumerator. The > address > and sex are, however, likely to be correct, the rest as we both know, > can be > a load of rubbish. > > This example does, however, serve to illustrate the differences > between > Sources and an Events. If I remember correctly "Fact" was only > recently > introduced into the Legacy 'definitions', certainly in the last 5 > years > following representations from those who moved from another program, > prior > to that they had simply been known as Events. > > After that little diversion, the important thing, I believe, is for > each of > us to decide which way round we would wish to define the Source and > Event, > but above all recognise that one cannot have a Source without an > Event(/Fact), and vice versa. A Source must be a source for something > and > the knowledge of an Event(/Fact) must have come from somewhere. My > main > point was, of course, that they cannot be one and the same. As I > said, I > choose not to have a Census Event because, for me, there would be far > too > much duplication in the records. > > Ron Ferguson > _____________________________________________________ > > Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: > http://www.fergys.co.uk > Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw > http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > ____________________________________________________ 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
