Rather than using the FGS, I have been using the timeline (a.k.a. Chronology) which places everthing in date order and can include the event notes as well.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Nixon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:27 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Family Group Sheets > 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
