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________________________________ From: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, January 20, 2012 6:01:23 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Farm-centric report/tree? On 20/01/2012 22:56, Bjørn K Nilssen wrote: > A lot of my family comes from small farms. Such farms ususally starts > (or my records do anyway) around 1500-1600 as one big farm, and is > then split into smaller farms as more children arrives. Farms have a > Gnr, like 26, and when split they get a bnr as well, like 26/1, 26/2, > 26/3 and so on. Sometimes they use an lnr as well, like 93a, 93b etc, > and sometimes the numbers changes too:( Some of my ancestors moved > around a lot, while other branches lived at the same farm > continuously for 450 years (and still going strong). > > I would like to make some reports/trees that are centred around these > farms, to see who lived where and when. Would this be possible in > Legacy? Or are there other charting programs or addons that will be > able to do this? I've been fiddling around trying to find a way that > works, but am not quite happy. How would you experts do this? Use > custom events? As I see it, the problem is that Legacy is "centred around" families, not locations, and you say you want Reports or Trees that are "centred around" certain locations. One way of tackling it, and it may not be the best way, but it's all that comes to me so far, is to create a separate Legacy family file where instead of entering people to create a tree , you enter farms! Put the numbers in the UserID field and the create Residence (or other name) Events for each family who lived in that farm. So you might start with Farm 26 entered in the "Father" position with Events showing which families lived there at which dates. Then if the farm splits, enter "sons" with user IDs 26/1, 26/2 etc. You could then run, say, a Descendant Book Report which instead of showing a series of families with their Events would show a series of related farms and which family lived there at different times. I hope that makes some sort of sense. I am not familiar with Norwegian history, so just basing my suggestion on how I understand what you wrote. -- Jenny M Benson 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
