or using a tag On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM, R G Strong-genes <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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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