Leonard, To answer your question we need to look at a little history. At one time Legacy just had Events, and whilst this was good enough for most of us those who moved from FTM complained that they missed the FTM Facts.
As others have said the difference between an Event and a Fact is often just a function of time, to is was perfectly in order to rename Events to Events/Facts and allow the user to decide which it is by looking at the time scale, particularly since I suspect that if we were individually asked to say which is which, we are quite unlikely to agree. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 7:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Event/Fact On 14/07/2013 19:03, Leonard Johnson wrote: > I'm wondering why this is called Event/Fact? What exactly is the > difference between an Event and a Fact? When I think of Events I always > think of this connected with a date, while when thinking about a Fact I > don't necessarily connect this with a date. > > An Occupation is something I think of more as belonging to the category > Fact than an Event. An Occupation is something that covers a time span > and not, IMHO, connected to a specific date or it can be just a piece of > information about a person's life without any connection with a date, > therefore a fact. You ask why this section of the program is called Event/Fact and then go on to answer your own question. That section is used to enter both Events (things which "happened", you might say) and Facts (things which "were"). -- 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
