Ron Ferguson wrote >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.
One of the great features of Legacy, as I and many others have said before, is that you can use it in whatever way suits you. >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?" If you, Kirsten, cannot think of any compelling reasons for you to have Events, then there probably aren't any. What is compelling for most of us obviously isn't for you. > >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. Absolutely. In fact, I am having difficulty in understanding how one would record a Source without having an Event to attach it to. Unless one made extensive use of Notes, but it in that case the Note field would essentially be an Event field. If some document records that an ancestor was a Colonel in the XYZ Regiment and fought at the battle of ABC where would you attach that Source if not to an Event named something like "Military" or maybe "Occupation"? -- Jenny M Benson 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
