Elizabeth,
How many generations are you planning to use? That might make a difference regarding suggestions on how to present the material. On the really early generations, you might create an ancestor report. Then bring down the family from this couple to show descendants. There are only two descendant style narratives in Legacy, either the outline descendant (called the Descendant Narrative report in Legacy) or grouped by generation (called the Descendant Book report in Legacy). Maybe a simple outline descendant chart without boxes at the beginning of the descendant narrative reports would allow for a visual perspective of the material to follow. Mary From: elizabeth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:33 PM My entire family is very, very interested in our family tree so I want the book to be inclusive and understandable. They have shared their memories, helped transcribe, helped with research and more. We all want to have a very detailed book that can be enjoyed for generations to come. This is the reason I am trying so hard to figure out a good way to do it. I haven't found a way to do it in Legacy so I have been copying/pasting information into a .rtf file but it doubles the 'handling' time of the information (once to put it into Legacy for storage and then to copy/paste it). Maybe someone can help me with the issue of 'how/where' to add the information about the branches of our tree that are not in our direct line........ Do I make separate chapters for each of those surnames? Do I add them as 'extra' chapters in the spot where that surname comes up in the book? Or is it best to add them at the back of the book?....??? I'm really in a muddle about all of this and would appreciate ideas from anyone who has produced a family tree as a book. Elizabeth ================================================== On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Paula Ryburn <[email protected]> wrote: Elizabeth, I have started to enter the Census Events on the marriage. Maybe that would reduce those at least. And then don't also use the Residence and Occupation events... just put those in the Census Event Notes...? Or if you want the Census Events on the children, but not on this particular report, I think there's a way to uncheck "Events" for children...? And isn't there a format choice for Events? something less list-like? Hmm... you've got me ready to test it out myself! ;) Good luck! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams _____ From: elizabeth <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, September 21, 2011 12:34:18 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Report for Family Reuion Syble, and group, I am also trying to create a book for my family and understand exactly what you are saying. There is ssoooooooo much repetition of information such as Events and Census data!!! I want my book to be more of a 'biographical sketch of each family', tying the whole family together rather than a long list of facts (Events, etc) but I have not figured out how this can be done. I have "lots and lots" of newspaper articles, obituaries, family stories, etc that I want included as part of the narrative, not entered as a long list of Events. And I want the census data to be for the whole family, not each person separately. Surely there must be folks on this list who have created narrative books for their families who might be able to help us........I hope so. Elizabeth ==================================================== 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
