Hi Rich, > What is the purpose of tagging a record? > Should I do this to my records and why? > Can I tag more than 1 at a time, and will tagging benifit me down the line
The purpose of tagging a record is whatever you make of it. Your tag, your purpose. You should tag a record when you have a purpose in mind. Tagging without a purpose is useless. Individuals can have more than one tag set at a time. They are independent of each other. Some uses I've made of tags is: a) marking distant relatives I've made contact with - if you don't keep up regular correspondence, you may forget who they are. b) marking people I want to include in my online trees (Ancestry, MyHeritage, Genes Reunited, etc) - a small fraction of my database, so I can quickly export them in a GEDCOM file. c) people I want to check a particular detail for - tag everyone you want to check, untag them as you do that check. Then, you can work on that project as time allows, and when you come back to it after a break you need only search for people with that particular tag set. Each of these situations is something that I can't easily reproduce with a search of the database, or the search would bring up people I no longer wanted to include (as in c above). If you don't have any purpose for tags, don't worry about it. You know that they're there, and what they can be used for, and one day you may find a need for them - in which case they're there ready to go. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy 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
