Tessa wrote: > So - I guess we need to encourage developers; this is something the tech > folks should be made aware of (RootsTech Developers Challenge anyone?). I > know one program that got an award sounded interesting and I should follow > up on that. How do we rattle some cages (or at least let them know that for > one-name studies and one-place studies, we need a bit of help with the tech > aspect? Thoughts anyone? What are you looking forward in a program or > programs and how should they integrate? What types of records need to be > considered (I will admit some of the records you mentioned are new to me - > as an American). How do we combine the things we like and can use Legacy > for with other programs?
As Ron says, One Name Studies aren't really too much of a problem. It's simply a matter of adding each name as a new entry be it for a birth, baptism, marriage, death, burial, confirmation, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, banns, wills, admons or any other event recording a name, date and details and tinkering with the field names to fit but not globally unless a universal field name could be utilized such as Event Type. A spreadsheet is easy. It would good if a spreadsheet could be uploaded into Legacy and all the data slot neatly into place :)) Enter Legacy for One Name Studies (please, please, please, PLEEEASE!) A Legacy database for a One Place Study would be very much more difficult because of the huge variety of different sources involved. I have 55 for Walton and that's not all of them. Apart from the obvious ones, parish registers and census returns, and the ones I mentioned before, others I have include marriage licenses, Petty Sessions, Quarter Session, Tithe Apportionments, Bastardy Bonds & Settlements, Gaol Records, Land Tax, Surveys, Family Papers, Wills, Leases, Mortgages, Agreements, Quarterly Abstracts of Paupers, Lunatic Act Returns, Jury Lists (not modern ones), Hospital Records, Inmate Admissions and Discharges, Workhouse records, Farm Accounts, MIs, Out Relief Orders, Wages Books, Farm Accounts, Phone Books, Induction of a Rector, Contract for a Sexton, Legal Expenses for another Rector, Papers relating to Glebes, Acts of Parliament, plus various maps and photos - and that's not everything. It would also have to take into account the kind of records that would be available in any country in the world. Many of them would overlap but not all. I currently use a spreadsheet and text docs depending on the content but they are all separate items in a folder. I'd certainly be interested to hear suggestions for other programs that could be used in conjunction with Legacy and also the views of Legacy Techs on the viability of a single database for an OPS or whether it would simply be too complex. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk 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
