that is helpful, thank you. On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot < br...@the-lightfoots.com> wrote:
> More about Dates.......... > > I thought that the only permissible word in a Legacy date field was the > word "unknown". Until I found this little gem in the Legacy Help File: > > "You can also enter the following words into any date field: dead, > deceased, child, infant, stillborn and young." > > Huh? That was news to me. I've often wondered about how should one handle a > case of a young child whose birth date may have been known but the only info > for a death date was something from a Family Bible that was akin to "died as > an infant", etc. So I checked this out within Legacy on a test individual. I > entered a normal birth date but for a death date I entered the word > "infant". Surprisingly Legacy immediately changed it to "Infant" (with a > capital letter I) which told me that Legacy accepted the word. I wondered > how this would look in a report and here is what that would look like: > > "Surprise Arizona, son of WhereAmI Arizona and Mary Test, was born on > 17 Aug 2010 and died as an infant." > > In other words, just having the word "Infant" in the date results in the > wording that one would want to see in a report. I tested the other words > under various circumstances and the report wording is quite acceptable. > > Darn. Learn something new every day! Maybe it was just me that was ignorant > of these little "date words" but I thought I'd still post the info just in > case others might find it beneficial. > > > Brian in CA > Still learning... > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Etiquette.asp> > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > > -- Kathy Meyer "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
