After reading over the tagging feature in Legacy, it seems that is intent is to help assemble groups of people for generating lists and/or reports. It does mention that the tags could be named if you wish, but no examples of why one might want to do so. I wondering in what ways others have found this feature useful. Specifically, I am wondering if are making use of them as temporary (just long enough to get a desired report), or permanent (not sure how this works, but say marking anyone with six fingers or toes), or a mix of both. Just generally, a run down of the ins and outs of how you use and managing these tags.
What I really want to do, is mark individuals with custom attributes. I thought maybe tagging was the way to go, but I can see running out of nine options in a hurry. Perhaps events (or maybe a singe event called "Tags" with simply a notes section of comma delimited tags) would better serve my purpose. Some examples may help. I'd like to track and have available in reports various attributes, such as twins. I know in the child settings, there is a dropdown box where I can set twins into my Legacy database, but I've not been able to discover how to get his information back out in reports or other ways of sharing the research. There are other attributes - Revolutionary War, Civil War, Mason, Baptist, Methodist, Republican, Politician, etc - that do not have entries built into the Legacy UI. I could create custom events for each specific attribute, but this seems a bit of overkill. I think I've done this with eval copies of other software, and am wondering how to achive this in Legacy. BTW, I get an error trying to search the archives, so apologies if it is already in there somewhere. TIA 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
