Thanks for reminding me to snip. I keep forgetting. Maybe I'll find out more about those archives since cheatsheets would be so much easier than trying to google it every time. Someday I will need the prefix - I have a relative by marriage who is a Rev. and another who is an M.D. (That would be a suffix and I have to find out if I'm putting the periods in the right place) but they aren't entered yet. No Jr. or Sr. as yet. So far middle names or initials are always different.
I would like to try the group, though I will have to file away a lot of info since I'm not "there" yet. Hope I don't miss how to join it on the Legacy "news." >________________________________ > From: Tessa <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 5:01 PM >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Cleaning up Location List (Geo options) > >There are all kinds of way to make Legacy work for you. I like the >surnames in all caps (and customization tab will take care of that); I >use the suffix for farm names of my Norwegian ancestors which is >really nice; if you have doctors or priests or nuns or juniors or >seniors or III's etc., you will have a use for prefix section; I >really spent some time with Wikipedia, FamilySearch, the Archives of >each Country that I have ancestors (Canada, Newfoundland (pre-Canada), >Ireland, Sweden, Norway, USA) to make up cheatsheets for >town/village/city, county, state, province, and country variations (it >is different depending on the country but you can come up with >standard system that works for you); the same for events, sources, and >all other master lists. It really is a process of playing around and >determining what works for you within the parameters of best >practices. Nothing is written in stone, but there are better, more >efficient ways of data entry. Legacy is super customizable and you can >definitely spend some time with it and make it work for you. Our May >Legacy Virtual User Group meeting is going to discuss tagging and our >June LVUG meeting is going to discuss customization. Always something >new to learn! (Don't know if I have this snipping thing down in the >forum yet) > > > 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
