Hello Jenny: If you are leaving the Date field empty, I imagine you would leave the Location field empty too, correct? Thanks > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Events - repeated or is once enough? > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:47:03 +0000 > > On 11/03/2013 18:25, lio . wrote: > > For the example where someone is recorded as "Catholic" on many > > different documents, do you create a different Religion/Catholic > > Event each time, or do you just set up one with the date being (for > > example) "03 Aug 1875-10 Dec 1912" and source it with each document > > recording Catholic? This can be the same for someone who lived in the > > same Residence for 60 years. Do you show 150 Events with the same > > address or do you do that same as above? > > > Strictly speaking you should only enter a "from - to" date range when > you know the Event/Fact covered the whole of that range. Just because I > see you in red shoes on Monday and in red shoes on Saturday, it doesn't > mean you wore them all week! > > Yes, it's probably quite unlikely that someone switched their religion > back and forth several times. It's rather less unlikely that they might > have lived at one address for a period of years, moved away and later > gone back to that address. > > I think in the case of Religion I would have one Event/Fact and cite all > the Sources but I would not actually use the Date field. In the case of > Residence, I would probably use separate Events/Facts, one for each > known date to record the facts, but if I was writing a book or creating > a narrative report I would edit the Legacy output to say something like > "he probably lived at ... from X to Y as he was known to be there on > several different dates within that period." > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > 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 > >
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