Hi Don,
Think about where you want to see this information - is it every time
you see a mention of someone born in Switzerland, or just in reports, or
something else? You don't actually say, so we're all left guessing about
your intentions.
This really is no different to any other piece of information that you'd
find about any person anywhere in the world - think about the structure
and how you want to use it, and then a solution that fits your needs can
be found. Any "mess" is the responsibility of the person creating it. ;-)
Do you use the Title Suffix field at all? I'm thinking if you wanted to
see this piece of information each and every time you view anything
about a Swiss person, you could put it in that field. Perhaps format it
in a particular way so that it is distinguished from other uses of the
field (say, use brackets of some kind - there are three on your
keyboard: (), [], {}.).
Or you could create an event called Heimat, where the only field used is
the Place (Location) - which would then put the heimat names into your
Locations, and you'd only have to enter each one once. The downside
could be that the heimat name would be entered into your Locations,
which may not suit you (I have no idea what form these names take, so am
guessing here). You can then structure the Event Sentence to read
however you want it to.
These are just two options that occur to me as I read your post. Legacy
is a flexible program and I'm sure more could be found if there was more
information about how the data might be used and other minds put to the
task.
Hope this helps. :-)
Wendy
Don Jaggi said the following on 23/03/2014 4:11 a.m.:
> 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.
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