I use the following events with sentences defined appropriately. As always, this is what I have decided to do. With Legacy's flexibility, you can do almost anything you want to fit your style of research and reporting.
Each of these is used to record if a person was someone's Godmother or Godfather. This would be an Individual Event. GODMOTHER GODFATHER Each of these is used to record a person's Godmother or Godfather. This would be an Individual Event. HER GODMOTHER HER GODFATHER HIS GODMOTHER HIS GODFATHER This is used to record a couple's Marriage Witnesses. This would be a Marriage Event. MARRIAGE WITNESSES This is used to record if a person is the Marriage Witness at someone's wedding. This would be an Individual Event. MARRIAGE WITNESS Mary -----Original Message----- From: Brett McL Robinson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 7:57 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Jenny M Benson Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] 2-way Events Hi Jenny I create two "matching" events, with the event name indicating in brackets if they are "done to" or "done by", and edit the wording so that it is correct for each - in effect I have two separate events. Cheers, Brett B McL Robinson, Hamilton, New Zealand On 11/06/2011 5:48 a.m., Jenny M Benson wrote: > There are quite a few Events one might want to add to a person's record > which can be either "done to" or "done by" and of course it makes a big > difference in the Sentence structure. > > One example: Godparents. One might want to record that somebody's > Godparents were Joe Bloggs and Fanny Adams, or one might want to record > that Joe Bloggs was a Godparent of Jane Doe. > > Another example: One might want to record that Joe Bloggs was granted > Probate of Fanny Adams's Will, or one might to record that Fanny Adams's > Will was Probated by Joe Bloggs. (Sometimes the only Source I have is > the National Probate Calendar, not details of the actual Will.) > > I'd be interested to know how other Luggers deal with this situation. > Failing coming up with another Event Name which makes sense (which I > haven't had much success with) it seems to me that the best way is to > ignore Description (which I usually use for most Events) and put all the > relevant information in the Event Notes so the wording can be varied > according to circumstance. 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 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
