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Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot < [email protected]> wrote: > I think you’ve misunderstood my post in that I wanted to be able to print > out a report that ONLY detailed these special history notes. Your mention > of the fact that the Location Index allows them to printed is true but at > the expense of also printing out every other location referenced in the > entire report. And there are other undesirable side effects that can > happen using the Location Index. If your note about a location is only a > brief sentence or two, then the Location Index maintains an appearance that > is acceptable. But a lot of us may have added lengthy notes about locations > that are several paragraphs or longer. When that happens in a Location > Index as you suggest, then the appearance starts to look like anything but > an Index. > > > > For example, I have some lengthy notes about how certain towns or counties > got their names, especially when they were named after a person in my > family file. A lot of these notes talk about the early history of the > location, who the first settlers were, and what happened after my > particular relative moved into the area. In some descriptions, these notes > are one and two pages long. I’ve looked at such output in the Location > Index and the very mixed appearance of the info being presented is not > anything I would want to forward to a relative. > > > > It is for that reason that I wanted to be able to print out a Location > Report that contained just these special locations. Using the Location > Report, I can even sort out the locations by State or County so that notes > about locations within the same geographic area would tend to stay > together. I’ve waffled back and forth about including these occasional > lengthy notes in the General Notes of a person or a marriage but I > sometimes I feel as if they just don’t belong there because they don’t > directly address the genealogical aspects of the family and are more > closely tied solely to the history of the location. As the OP indicated, > this historical information usually applies to more than one member of the > family so you can’t make an arbitrary decision as to whom the notes would > be included. And this is why I say that there is no easy way to obtain a > clean looking Location Report without lots of effort to tag those > locations. Just because one can include the notes in a Location Index > doesn’t make that a good method. > > > > Brian in CA > 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://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
