Let’s say on a census record a woman states she is the mother of 8 children with 6 children living. I add two “unknown” children but I just fill in the surname only. I put the birth/death dates between the date of the census and the last known date that I have (usually their marriage date) and then I put the gender unknown. I then write a note explaining it. That way I can see that she really had 6 children, 2 child died before the census was taken, I don’t know if they were boys or girls. Another good example is when you are looking at tombstones and you see
infant of Mr. and Mrs. William Colon Simmons I would put a child in with an unknown gender with only the surname. michele From: Anne Hollingshead Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 1:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Index view appearance I am sorry I didn't explain this very well. I don't put ? in data fields. I just use unknown sex (?) with DATA as the surname to indicate that this is not data about a person that is part of my family tree but it is an entry in Legacy which I use like a filing system where I store the information that I collect that may well be relevant to my tree in the future. Anne On 21/06/2011 12:14 PM, Sherry/Support wrote: There are some really good reasons why you should leave data fields blank when you don't have any information to enter.. 1. Search icon has a "Missing Information" search tab. If you have a question mark in the field, Legacy doesn't understand it and it thinks that you do have information. 2. Book reports can insert underlines for missing information only if the field is blank. 3. Chronology view can insert an underline for missing location so you can quickly tell that you need to find one! 4. Getting It Right by Mary Slawson indicates that when you don't have data, the fields should be left blank. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Anne Hollingshead mailto:[email protected] wrote: Thank you Sherry. I would really like to have that option. I use the ? slot for my data that I can't yet relate to a particular person or for things like ships This way it does not interfere with my index because it is all together e.g. DATA Family name -Country abbreviation- State abbreviation DATA Town- State or County Country (for towns where I have many families) DATA Ships Name of Ship I find italics particularly hard to skim down and it doesn't achieve much purpose if you have color to highlight those individuals where the sex is unknown. Anne 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1382 / Virus Database: 1513/3716 - Release Date: 06/20/11 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
