Thanks, Kristen, Ron, Dennis and everyone! Yesterday, I spent most of the day experimenting with events based on the notion of using them as a way to arrange notes as desired in my report of choice.
I get it now. There's the conceptual events model, based on the general ideas that drove its orignal inclusion in the Legacy software package. Then there's the software implementation of the events model, which turns out to have some very useful features that lots of people are exploiting so they can get their reporting just so, or so they can organize their research more intuitively. It was that second bit that was throwing me. So yesterday, since Individual Reports are what I'm after, I fooled around with adding events so that I could add notes that print up towards the top of the report. Excellent! It was just the ticket. My end goal was to have bits of topical commentary in my report, for instance, notes about why I settled on a particular birth date, or notes about the circumstances of why a family member died in Ohio as opposed to their home county in Pennsylvania. So I created events called "Birth notes" and "Death notes". In my opinion, these certainly are *not* events, so I'm breaking the conceptual events model. However, I'm exploiting the implementation model in the software. Thanks once again, everyone. Jean Suplick On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Kirsten Bowman <[email protected]> wrote: > Jean: > > Here are a couple of specific examples: > > A main use of my own database is for posting at RootsWeb. GEDCOMs uploaded > to that site put Events (if included) in the upper portion of the > individual's page, above the spouse's name and list of children. I dislike > that look and prefer to see the the family group, including parents, spouse, > and list of children without being interrupted by a long string of Events. > All details that I've found on an individual are included in the source > citations at the bottom of the page, including each census listing, bmd > records, city directory, etc. > > A second use of my database is for sharing with co-researchers. I send > Descendant Reports as Word documents and friends are then able to copy/paste > source citations into their own records without a lot of tedious re-typing. > Hopefully they either do an independent verification of the record or cite me > as the original source. (This can also be done from RootsWeb, but that file > is not always up to date.) > > When I'm involved in detailed research on one individual I do use Events in > order to produce a Chronology which can be very helpful in tracking research > holes, migration paths, etc. > > There are other ways of doing some of these things--and certainly many other > uses for databases--so, as others have said, your method for handling Events > will vary depending on how you intend to use the data. > > Kirsten > 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
