If I want to capture an occupation, residence, military service, university degree, etc., in Legacy, then normally I want to make that information available to others via reports such as Family Group sheets or Descendant Narrative reports. If you, Kirsten, never want to do so, then I wonder why you would capture detailed source citation that are not literally the 'source' of any particular piece of data in the database. For those that do want to do this, I would like to make 2 points.
(1) I prefer to express the information to the reader in a concise, readable form, which is often not the same literal wording as the source, and sometimes combines info from multiple sources. The Text notes in the source detail should be faithful to the source, including misspellings. The source is for researchers, including myself, to go back and check/compare info later. Most of this need not ever appear in a footnote/endnote citation, or anywhere in a report. (2) These readable expressions that do appear in reports (as well as in Family view when browsing in Legacy) could be either in Notes fields or in Events. I feel that I made the mistake early on of ignoring Events and relying on General and Research Notes, just because it was simpler (and more accessible in Family view). Now I see that it is much easier (but not impossible) to associate sources with snippets of information if the info is separated into specific Events/Facts, rather than being buried in the middle of a longer Note field. With some effort, the eventual report can still be nearly as readable. Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny M Benson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Uses For Events? 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
