Jenny, Paula, Whilst I broadly agree with your comments, Jenny, I with old add that should Paula convert to GEDCOMs then shared events will not be converted, only the original. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/
Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: >On 09/03/2014 02:42, Bert van Kootwijk wrote: >> Clipboard has nothing to do with shared events. > >Sorry, Bert, but I think you are wrong. > >Before we had Event Sharing we sometimes used the Event Clipboard to >copy an Event from the first person's entry to all the other people >involved. Paul was asking for our thoughts on doing this, as opposed to >using Event Sharing. > >The two processes are rather different and the results differ, but I >think it is very valid question. > >Personally, I am not yet fully up to speed with Event Sharing, but I >think I will be using it more in the future. There are certain Events >where some people will use Sharing and I do/will not. For example, a >Census Event. The way I enter a Census into an Event is to use the >Description line for all the information about an individual - name, >age, birthplace etc and the Notes field to record the names and >relationship of all the other household members - "The household >comprised Joe Bloggs, his wife Jane Doe and their son Fred Bloggs." I >prefer to stick with that method. > >I am, though, now using Shared Events for things like a Will (roles of >Legatee, Executor, Witness), a Marriage (role Witness), Birth & Death >Registrations (role Informant) and others. > >Paula, I think you should try a few Shared Events and see how you like >it. You can do quite a lot of Role creation and customising of >Sentences so you can get a good output just as you want. The big >disadvantage, if you choose to do so, is going back and changing any >existing Events to match the new shared ones. > >-- >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 > > 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
