I like this idea, and plan to try it. As with any conversation is evolves and takes different thought paths through out. It does make it hard to follow sometimes, especially in email form. I do think we have just about wrapped this one up though, so I'll summarize what I think has been said.
There's at least 4 different sorts of notes being talked about at different times (I think). And including them in ones reports, documents, etc likely requires different strategery. - Smallish paragraph(s) sized tidbits. Custom Event(s) seem a good candidate for these. - Larger page(s) sized biographical sorts of stories, perhaps per individual or per marriage, and General Notes in those case is a candidate for dealing with those. - Larger page(s) sized stories involving multiple people, but specific to your family(ies) line(s). Perhaps a story that points out how tight knit a group four surnames in were in some time period. Seems that at this point the 3rd party app for dealing with the story, then some manual integration with Legacy RTF reports to make a polished document for distribution. - Larger page(s) sized stories that may include your family, but are larger than just your family lines - history of church, history of a county, etc. In this case, perhaps an event is used in ones family report(s) with a source citation to this stand along work. In which case, the event and source pair act as a pointer to more information. Anyway, that's how I see it. On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:45 PM, John S. Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > James, > > I've been trying to follow this thread and the suggestions made to you, but > I may have missed something. > > I try to write a short biography of my direct ancestors, including major > events and accomplishments. I put this in General Notes. In the basic > reports--Individual & Family--these notes appear at the end of the report. > But in the longer book reports, such as the Descendant Narrative, the > General Notes appear immediately after the birth, death and burial > information, and before the Events. For these reports, you can change the > title from "General Notes" to "Biography," "Life Story," or anything you > want. I don't remember what the size limitation for notes is, but as I > recall, it is very large and probably doesn't impose much of a limitation. > As I said, unless I've missed something, using General Notes would seem to > do what you want. > > John S. Adams > Hermosa Beach, CA 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
