Legacy displays up to 5 data items on the Family View. The defaults are Birth, Baptism/Christening, Death, Burial, and Death Cause, but you can modify these. I don't see where Legacy provides for any general user-defined fields, so you would have to pick something that you are not otherwise using. UserID is what I would probably pick since I do not use that for much of anything else, however that would not be recognized as a location and would not connect with the Master Locations. Alternatively, could put it as the first item in the General Notes. About 2 lines of the notes will show if the General Notes is selected as a field to display on the Family View.
Another option might be to use Birth Location as the heimat and Birth Address as the actual birth place. You can change the label on the Family View to read Birth Date/Heimat. But Birth Address is not a selectable field for displaying on the Family View, so you would not be able to see the actual birth location there. Also I don't see a way to globally change the labels (individual view, pedigree view, etc). Also don't know how it would work on reports, GEDCOMs, etc. No perfect solution. Sounds like a good future enhancement item - a specific field for Ancestral Home (Heimat) which would be a location field and/or a half-dozen or so user-definable fields. -----Original Message----- From: Don Jaggi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Switzerland research When I view a person in any view I want to know at least two pieces of information. I want to know where they were born and where their heimat is. So how do I get the heimat to appear with every person. A heimat is not an event. It is the ancestral home or place where a families records are kept even though they may not have lived there for generations. Swiss genealogies are a mess because no distinction has been made between the two. The standards of the past has been to record the heimat as the birthplace. Does Legacy have the flexability to provide a view of these two pieces of information in the person or family view. 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
