Tony, First, I don't think the information in the vitals notes prints anywhere.
If you put the burial notes in an Event note, you can have it placed exactly where you want it to read in the narrative reports. The individual events can be moved up and down in the 'List of Events', depending on what information you have for the person. A simple example below shows two events that follow the block of vitals in a Legacy Descendant Book report for Ada. If I wanted to have the burial note read below the obituary, I'd just highlight it and move it under the Obituary event in the 'List of Events'. As you can see, for the burial location, I add the Cemetery Name in (...) following the city. This way, I can search and create a list of burials in each cemetery and they also sort well in the location list. I don't enter anything in the 'general notes' or any of the vitals notes. I created an event called 'Notes' instead so I can arrange my narrative to read the way I want. You can't tell by this example, but I can attach a photo of Ada's headstone to the first note following the block of vitals and the photo will be included in the report. Another bonus is each Notes Event can be sourced. The cemetery address, phone number, directions, etc. I add to the location notes for each cemetery and it prints in the Locations Index. My goal is to try to produce interesting Narrative reports for my family. If you haven't gotten too far along with your data input, try a few different things, with an eye toward what is important to you. Legacy is very flexible. My suggestion would be to try and settle on your style of data input and then be consistent. 1. Ada M. Lofland, daughter of Jonathan Cruse "Uncle Jonk" Lofland and Mary Ann Elizabeth "Bettie" Crawley, was born on 5 Sep 1886 in Gravelly, Yell County, Arkansas, died on 4 Aug 1937 in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas at age 50, and was buried in Memphis (Fairview Cemetery), Hall County, Texas. <<<<< this is the block of hard coded vitals info Ada is buried next to her husband and each have separate headstones. Their daughter, Allie, who died young, is buried nearby. <<<< this information was entered with a Notes Event ... she was remembered in an obituary, published on 5 Aug 1937, Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas. <<<<<< this information was entered with an Obituary Event Mrs. Chester Caviness Mr. and Mrs. Bob Caviness, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Caviness, Mrs. Lee Montgomery, and Mrs. Fred Harris left Wednesday for Memphis, Tex., to attend the funeral of Mrs. Chester Caviness, who died at her home in Memphis Wednesday morning. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Rolfe [mailto:[email protected]] Sherry said: > I put the name of the cemetery or hospital in the Description field, > date buried or of hospitalization in the date field and city, county, > state and country in the Place field. > Doesn't that make reports a bit strange? You would get the vital statistics bit (including "he was buried in " and the name of the town), then all the life events and finally the cemetery event. Wouldn't it read more smoothly if you included the cemetery details in the burial location, so that it was included in the in the front of the report? I've always included all burial details (including plot and row numbers and cemetery name) in the burial location and the report has all relevant data together. I'm still able to include pictures and notes, although I do have to cut and paste notes about the actual cemetery into each individual location. Just a thought Tony 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
