Thank you much for explaining that, I wondered how it would print in a report. I did not realize that the shared event would not completely print if the original person was not a part of the report. That would seem important. Have you found a way around this? Thanks
Renee From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Sharing Events - the Good and the Bad Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 14:50:18 +0000 I am working through my tree putting sources and media onto events and other items. The ability to share an event can be very useful, especially for a census record. I can create a single event record, attach the source and a copy of the media, and then share it across all of the members in the family. Sensibly, if the Head of the family is within the tree, I would create the event under his individual entry and then share it across the rest of the family. Thus, my father’s 1911 census is shared from my grandfather’s 1911 census. My grandfather has his own censuses for 1891, 1901 and 1911, shared with his children, and has the 1871 and 1881 census shared from my great-grandfather. This works out very well; as I only need to create each event record once and the families all get the same information, sources and media. When I report on the tree, I get the census entry listed in detail on the original individual, together with a list of the people it is shared with. They get a shortened entry referring back to the original entry. This is very good and can reduce the size of the reports – until I decide to start the report from my grandfather onwards. Then I get two entries referring to my great-grandfather’s census entries, which are not in the report. If I look at my great-grandfather, he will get one shared from his father, one from his mother, one from his brother-in-law, four of his own and finally one shared from his oldest son. Again, depending on how this is reported, there will be entries with references to events on people not in the report. If I look at his oldest son, my great-uncle, I find that he has never lived with his parents until the 1911 census, when his father lived with him. In his first census, while his parents and three younger children have moved (from Great Wakering, Essex to Swanscombe, Kent), he was living with his step-grandfather and his grandmother in Ipswich, Suffolk. Logically, I should create this census event under the step-grandfather’s entry and share it, but then I have to ensure that a report on my great-grandfather also includes my other great-grandmother – since using the great-grandfather will only get a reference to an event on my great-grandmother’s second husband. So the idea of sharing events looks good, but does have a number of issues. Ideally, we need for the reports to be able to print one full copy of the shared events, either against the owner of it, if he is included, or against one of the shared copies if the owner is not included. -- Regards Chris 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
