Does it show up on the person you begin with (who may be a son) or only on "head of household"?
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Kirsty M. Haining <[email protected]>wrote: > This is not directly in response to Steve’s question, but more a comment > on how the shared events function in general. > > > > Earlier there was some discussion about the shared event being a > proprietary format, and what programs might or might not take advantage of > Legacy’s codes. I didn’t pay a lot of attention to that discussion since > it mentioned programs I do not use myself. > > > > However, for those of us who export gedcoms from Legacy to post a tree > someplace else (such as on Rootsweb or Ancestry or published via another > competing software program), the shared event will export solely under the > name of the person whose event is being shared. I tested with a census — > under the head of house’s census event it all displayed normally, but then > following that event I got all the shared events for every other household > member — but it shows up on the head’s page and not in the data of the > other household members. This, for me, makes shared events useless since > the census data won’t appear on the household member’s page in my Rootsweb > exports. This makes sense when you think about it, because of the limits of > the gedcom format. > > > > Still, I wanted to warn people up front in case they got excited doing a > lot of shared events and only later found out how it might adversely affect > their publishing. > > > > > > > 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
