Occupation is the type of work you do - my occupation is Technical Support Employment is where you do it - my employment is Millennia Corp.
Does that help? Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 4:05 AM, GeoPappas <papp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know what the difference between the Occupation and the > Employment events is supposed to be? > > I thought at first that an Occupation might be like the career that the > person was in, and an Employment event is the specifics of who they worked > for. For example, Insurance Agent would be the occupation and they were > employed by State Farm from 01/2005 to 07/2007. > > But then I looked at the event definitions and now I'm not really sure how > they are supposed to be used. > > If you take a look at the event definitions for them, you will notice that > the Occupation event has similar event sentences to the Employment event. > > The Employment event uses the verb "employed" in all of the event sentences, > but the Occupation event uses the verb "worked" in half of the event > sentences and the verb "employed" in the other half of event sentences. > > > > 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com > 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 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
