Hello everyone. This is my first posting to this user group, although I've been a Legacy User for a very long time (I date back to Legacy 3). I've only recently discovered Shared Events (I can't believe I didn't know about it before last month! I guess that's what happens when you re-read the manual), but have come across a perplexing issue. There are two types of events: single date events (such as a birth, wedding, graduation, etc), and date ranged events (education, occupation and residence, for example). Residence is the one that concerns me most because it is really a shared event when you have families living together (under the head of household - in the same way a census is set up). The issue I have is that the shared event is a fixed date for all people the event is shared with, but the occupants of a residence come and go. For example, a couple may be married, but the husband leaves and his wife remains in the same house. This happened with my parents. It doesn't make sense for me to have another residence event for her to show this separation when she didn't move. It is also challenging because of children - they come and go - as well as other people who may stay for a brief time. For example, my sister resided with my aunt and uncle for 2 years, but they had lived in the same house for over 15 years.
I know I can have the residence events separate for each individual, but then that doesn't really reflect the true sharing of the households. What I'd like to see is the ability to customize the date range of an event to the person sharing it. Anyone else with thoughts on this? Thank you, Trevor Carlson Edmonton, AB 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
