First, thanks to all your suggestions on how to handle my unknown grandchildren questions!
Since I'm still going over all my obituaries in my files, I've run across another situation. In many of my obituaries and other documents, I've run across names of individuals over and over again but cannot find any relationship. For example, John Doe's name keeps appearing in many documents concerning several of my relatives. He's listed as a pallbearer for several relatives' funeral services, an informant on a death certificate, some church meeting transcripts, and other documents. This person must have been an important part of my relative's life, by either being a very close friend, neighbor, or fellow church/organization member. I have added these as un-linked individuals, with events showing his connection with my relative, i.e, he was a pallbearer for Sallie Smith's funeral, with the dates, places, notes, and citations and added that same information to the corresponding relative event list, i.e, John Doe was a pallbearer, etc. I've also added these to my to-do list to find out more about them, etc., so I can get a broader picture of my relatives' lives. With some of my relatives, it appears that they were active in their church or organization, with their lives revolving around it. Since I have such limited research time and may have long periods between research, I need to keep as much information as possible in Legacy, and where it can almost 'slap me in the face' when I'm working in Legacy. Am I on the right track here? How do you incorporate these close friends, neighbors, church family, etc., into Legacy? And if this was in the archives, I must have overlooked it or my search wording was off, so I apologize in advance if this has been discussed. Once again, thanks for all your help! Sheri Harris Georgia Researching the families of West, Harris, Trimmer, McDonald, Prater, Moose, Stockburger, Daugherty, Elliott, Atchley and Haney www.westharrisfamily.com 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
