On 16/12/2014 20:19, carogene wrote: > I add occupations after the marriage place, only for tree printing > purposes. It can be far more interesting to see a pattern emerge, or not. > Looking forward to Legacy dealing with this one, it would be a popular > addition I think.
The big problem must be that Occupation is not a single fixed fact like Birthdate/place or Baptism Date/Place but could be a recurrent Event. Many people have 2, 3 or more occupations in their lifetime. I record each instance of a person's occupation that I see recorded. For one of my ancestors this results in: 1823 Shoemaker 1825 Cordwainer 1826 Cordwainer 1828 Corwainer 1830 Labourer 1832 Labourer 1834 Cordwainer 1836 Cordwainer 1838 Cordwainer 1840 Cow Keeper 1841 Rag Dealer 1847 Cordwainer 1851 Cordwainer 1861 Cordwainer 1871 Greengrocer 1875 Greengrocer -- Jenny M Benson 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
