Have you thought about using the User ID field in the lower left corner of the individual screen. This field is searchable and you can have anything in it numbers, text, etc. Russ
From: Marg Strong Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the "I think" and "maybe" individuals? For me that's true also, Ron. I was looking for a way to mark them, but it would have to be something different than entering something into any of the name fields. The best I can think of right now is in the note fields, but that wouldn't pull them up in a search. Maybe when I have a better understanding of starting my own individual ID numbers (If I'm wording that correctly) something might be possible. Fortunately, right now, I don't have "maybes" in my tree except one unattached family, but I have seen some I've been tempted to include. I'm thinking having a lot of "unattached individuals would be confusing, so haven't done it again. It's something I'll have to look for a way that I'm happy with, but not a top priority right now. Thanks for your thoughts on this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] What to do with the "I think" and "maybe" individuals? Peggy, As somebody else wrote, it is important to consider at this early stage as to whether you may wish to publish your work as a report just for your family, send copies to other researchers, publish formally or as a web site. If so how would they look if full of "possibles" or "maybes". OK, you could put them in Privacy Brackets, but this would stop you using them for other purposes. Ron Ferguson httpp://www.fergys.co.uk/ 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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