I'm interested in seeing the responses you get for 1 & 2, as Ive been playing with those ideas myself, and haven't come up with anything. As for #3, I don't use a census as en event i itself. I use residents as the event, and the census as a source (and occasionally birth and parent linkage if i don't have better documents to use), but regardless of whether you use census as an event in itself or as a source for an event, I think my situation might help. I have been tagging residence under marriage, then in the notes for the event I write in everyone shown to be living with them. When the children leave home, I tag residence to the individual until they get married. In FG's, this helps me see family migration, and to see when children "flew the coup". I have been having a rethink on this... The problem occurs when I do "Individual Reports". Since no one has a residence event tagged tp them individually when their children or when their married, I loose and individual's migrant patterns, only spots when they were single and on their own do they show up. It also has a tendency to make some FG reports a bit chaotic if someone moved alot and remarried several times, with some residents showing in husband or wife notes, and others under marriage notes,showing what appears to be gaps, but appaers in another section of the FG report. While I'd still like to keep the tags for residence in marriage to show family unit and family migration, I've been realizing that I'm probably gonna have to do the double work and also tag individual's for residence, even when their married or with parents, otherwise a true chronoligical migration patterns gets spotty in individual reports, with some dates attach to the individual and some dates attached to marriage.
--- On Wed, 3/30/11, Dick Nixon <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dick Nixon <[email protected]> Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheets To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2011, 1:27 PM The recent discussions on shared events prompt me to send a note I have been holding for while...... Family Group Sheets / Individual Sheets I tend to use FG sheets for most of my research and have some issues with how they are laid out in Legacy. I wonder if anyone else has had these issues and if they have a solutions or suggestions they would share. 1. Birth, baptism, and death are the big events in life and they are prominently captured at the top of the sheet. But the notes for same are stuck way at the end, after other events. The standard "events/facts" that you add keep everything together...data and notes. I like the latter. Seems odd that we do a better job on the less important things. (The individual chronology report actually does a better job of sorting, I think.) Does anyone routinely use separate Events for B, B,and D so that they print chronolgically with the rest of the events? Is there any drawback to doing this (I haven't done much with the other reports yet, or putting files on the web, so don't know what I may regret later.) I have no problem with showing the birth date at the top of the FGS and in the first event as well. 2. In an individual report, the marriage data is buried with parent data. I would prefer to show the marriage as an individual event that sorts chronolgically. I know it would repeat for both H and W in a FGS. But adding a new Marriage event would print in two event places on the FGS, the standard Legacy marriage events in another after the wifes events, and the marriage notes way at the end. This seems really odd to me, but I may miss something. Any better ideas? 3. I guess the general question is "Joint events" like census for husband and wife....do you repeat them in the FGS as individual events, or let them print as marriage events, in a weird place, as Legacy does. Or is there another way? I know 3 has been discussed before, but if you have a better way to do 1 and 2, I'd like to hear what you think on 3. Perhaps someone has a Legacy "template" they would share, or can point me to another generator of FGSs that I could export to. Some other programs seem to sort better but do not handle event notes very well. Appreciate your thoughts. Dick 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 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
