Ah, the international standards comment threw me - ISO, duh! Yes, I meant "In search of" :D
I do use this idea already, the difference this time being that I don't have data that really belongs to any individual in my database, just sort of a family line introduction. I guess a stubby individual or moving the event around as my line grows are my choices. I've posted before about my GED Utils macros for cleaning up Legacy GEDCOM exports, one of them to attach my notes to events correctly. It works well most of the time. However, long notes can be truncated by the other programs. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Dick Nixon <[email protected]> wrote: > Cathy-O's idea is very useful because events have a lot of > flexibility...you can name, sort, source them, etc. and they tend to > appear in "better" places in reports than the regular notes do. (See > recent discussions on using your own events for birth, baptism, and > death in order to get those notes in a more logical place.) > > For Julia....such events are just a more detailed way to do what could > have been done in General Notes. Your choice. > > You can go a bit further than just "Misc. Notes". You could do an > event called "Willis Family History" that you can source and can > easily copy to any members of the family that you like (using the > clipboard of course). > > But be aware that it is difficult or impossible to transfer Legacy > events to some other programs. They often don't like the 'notes' part > of the event. > > Dick > > FYI--I think the OP meant 'In Search Of' by ISO. > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
