You could use an Event to record this detail. Depending on your personal preferences, you could create one event to record all ethnicities, or a series of events which are each dedicated to a particular one of your interest. I think I would use one event, and put the defining term in the Description field. One person could have more than one event of this type.
You can choose to display a selected event amongst the five fields displayed in Family View, if it's something you want up front and visible. Right-click on the field names to bring up the Customise Family View Information window and make your choices. Hope this helps. :-) Wendy fersken said the following on 13/10/2014 09:05: > Since the emergence of the Origin’s Report, I have been considering > the difference between place of birth and ethnicity. I have > Montaukett Indian ancestry in my background but on the Origin’s > report, the only thing they represent is U.S. > The*Montaukett*or*Montauk people*are aNative American > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States>tribe > ofAlgonquian > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_languages>-speaking people > from the eastern end ofLong Island > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island>,New York > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York>. I have in my direct > ancestry a chief of the Montaukett named Wyandanch. In the the second > half of the 1650s, Wyandanch had acquired enough power and influence > to be considered the main "alliance chief" on a Long Island by the > colonists. My Origin’s Report shows United States and I began to > wonder if Legacy 8.0 had any way of showing ethnicity? I could find > nothing on the subject. In this 21st century in the United States, > there are many who are of mixed ethnicities. While I understand the > problematic concept of setting up a column to show ethnicity and the > possibility of offending some people, I wonder if there isn’t some way > to include race*if the researcher wanted to*. The census > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census>officially > recognizes six ethnic and racial categories: White American, Native > American and Alaska Native, Asian American, African American, Native > Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races; > a race called "Some other race" is also used in the census and other > surveys, but is not official. The United States Census Bureau also > classifies Americans as "Hispanic or Latino" and "Not Hispanic or > Latino", which identifiesHispanic and Latino Americans > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans>as a > racially diverse/ethnicity/ > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_Census>that > composes the largest minority group in the nation. Apparently, this > concept of including ethnicity rather that place of origin is too > “touchy†for any genealogical software company to touch. My question, > therefore, is this: Is there any way I can indicate (other than in the > notes) that some of my direct ancestors are Native American and not > mix them together as United States? Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
