I like that I can find my "maybes" and my "I think". Anyone checking my tree knows immediately that I don't have a world of confidence in that <G> but it also brings me corrections and tidbits of advice from people I suspect wouldn't write otherwise.
I have ended up having what approaches a town genealogy in my family tree. I am working heavily from the Bishops Transcripts - which lead to a lot of 'Maybe' at the best of times. From 1770 on I have a good chance of finding the family in the census and other records which lets me remove some of the maybes. My other big reason for them is when I find a marriage online at familysearch it doesn't always indicate if the woman was married before, so a "maybe". Eliz On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Marg Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > Eliz, that's an interesting way of doing it. I started trying to think of > something like that and adding it but was afraid it might be too > non-standard. So far I haven't added many "maybes." It is good that Legacy > gives lots of leeway so we can do what we think will be helpful. Needs a lot > of planning ahead though! > > ________________________________ > From: Eliz Hanebury <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 2:57 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the "I think" and "maybe" > individuals? > > Marg, I go straight to "Maybe" and Possible and I put it in the name - > Mary (maybe) Jones, where I can easily see it. > > I have six Davis lines all blood kin to me, but since I am a Davis > born this gets confusing <G> as you can imagine. > > Yesterday I cried Uncle and entered on one William (married a > Phillips) Davis which will tell me his children are blood kin to my > Howe line thru my 2Xggf sister. I love that Legacy lets me do these > odd things. > > Also I don't use "sources" I put the sourcing in the event, I hate a > row of numbers after a name <G> but that is me and Legacy lets me <G> > > > > > Eliz > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Marg Strong <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> When I read this (posted as a comment in another topic) I wondered again >> if >> there was a way to put individuals into your tree and identify them as >> unsourced. I have a number of branches (not as important as my main line, >> but still of interest) with names, dates, children, spouses, etc that are >> found on family trees on ancestry.com without sources. The information is >> so >> specific it seems they have family knowledge so I hate to leave those >> individuals out of my tree. But I would like some way to identify them as >> unsourced. I suppose there is a "report" that wil show me a list of >> unsouced >> individuals; I haven't come to the point yet of using reports since I'm >> still working on cleaning up my database. >> >> I've sent messages to several of the owners of the trees, but rarely >> receive >> an answer. >> >> I know there are colors to use in Legacy, but those are used for family >> lines, is that not correct? I'm thinking of adding something in >> parenthesis >> after the given name of these individuals - Maybe in the prefix option - >> such as NS for "not sourced." Would that be a mistake? Is there a better >> way >> to tell at a glance when a family is pulled up, without having to go into >> each individuals window? I have enough cleanup to do on main family lines >> before I start on the branches that are further out. But I hate to leave >> out >> information that I hopefully will be able to check more throughougly >> later. >> >> Would appreciate your thoughts. 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