Well here I go again, trying to cut and paste to reply. I did re-subscribe and just sent back the confirmation email, so hopefully I'll start getting mail again.
Actually, I won't cut and paste. I was interested in Ron's discussion of the census records. I guess from what he said, I could do a search on the topic, but that might be more confusing. I have been entering them as an event (for couples, if there is a family, or one person, if single). I put the whole text from the image into the citation and after than use just the census source and citation for other events. I do want to see the whole family printed out once. But I'm so new to all this I'm not sure how it's going to look when put into a report. For what I have in mind, for family wanting this in "story" form, the whole family together (in a census) once, might be interesting. In my notes when I put the book together, I can enter my thoughts and observations on the family changes and the history of the area. I don't know where to do that so it prints out in Legacy. If an ancestor was a farmer, I doubt it would be interesting to have it print out several times because it is found in several census lists. So I'm not sure how to deal with occupations. For myself, I want them all there. For the "book" I want what will hold attention of a non historian person. I've just begun to understand how important the "places" event is for timelines. And I haven't used it. So will have to go back and add them. I know I need to test the report features and see how it prints out now. Maybe that will give me ideas. The last time I put a book together for family members, I pretty much took the information and rewrote it, adding the photos I had. The trouble with that is that, after more research, a lot changes and somehow has to be incorporated into a new book, which, hopefully won't have to be completely rewritten! The never ending story. There are so many ways to do things, and I've just started. And I'm getting on in years so my time is limited. Back to work! Peggy 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
