I agree also. It needs to be a source. But for my purposes, I'll use it also as an event so the transcription will go into the main part of the page. If I were thinking of publishing, I would do it differently since readers would be more in tune with checking the sources. I am hoping to present my work more as a narrative history of family for family.
>________________________________ > From: Lee Bruch <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:34 PM >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event > >Everyone has their own needs and preferences. (It must be hard for genealogy >programmers to fulfill all those needs!!!). > >But I try to simplify things in my own mind. So for me, an event is simply >what happened (born, lived at, moved to, died, etc.) and a record is a record >of those events. So for me, an obituary would be a record. > >-----Original Message----- >From: M. Brenzel [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:27 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event > >But you can also look at it as a fact in the person's life. An obituary was >published for the individual. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Doug Laidlaw [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:03 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event > >I would think of it as a source. It is not something that happened in the >history of the individual in question, but an entirely separate piece of >documentary evidence. > >Doug. > >On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:04:45 -0800 (PST) Marg Strong <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Speaking of obituary event (someone recently used it as an >> illustration) I didn't think of it as being an event, but as a source, >> with the transcription in the detail. >> >> >> If it were listed as an event, then it would be seen in the body of >> the report, but as a source, it would be found in the >> footnotes/endnotes so the event seems an advantage, having relatives >> who will be sent my "book" after I am happier with my entries. (I'm >> cleaning them up a bit every day) I'm fairly sure that most will skim >> over the footnotes/endnotes or not read them. Do you use it as a >> source or event or both, when you have few or no other sources for the >> death? >> >> Thanks for you ideas on this, >> Peggy >> > > > > >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 > > > > > 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
