If your question on Hashtags has not been answered here is my take on
their usage.
A Hashtag is a label you can apply to one or many people in your file.
Once you have given them that label legacy has ways to create lists,
reports etc. on all the people so labelled.
Say you want to trace all the descendants of your ancestor(s) who came
over on the Mayflower. Now only one or very few people would have an
event for their arrival in North America on the Mayflower but by giving
all their descendants the Hashtag "Mayflower Descendant" you can take
advantage of the tools legacy provides for finding, listing and
reporting on people with that Hashtag. In a way it is an extension of
the current nine numeric tags but now you can have an infinite number of
hashtags.
So far as I know when Legacy programmers were looking for a name for
their new feature they borrowed the term from the social networking site
Twitter. Twitter uses a hashtag (named because they are preceded with
the hash mark #) as a way to group posts to that site by subject.
Brian Kelly
On 18-Apr-17 6:31 PM, Robert57P_gmail wrote:
When/why would one use a "hashtag" instead of an "event/fact"? Or would
some things be entered in both places? (putting something in both places
seems like it might be a bit of a pain.)
Why the name "hashtag"? Doesn't seem very descriptive to me . . . but I
can't think of a better name at the moment.
If I currently have something in an EVENT/FACT in version 8, but it
should really be a HASHTAG - how do I move it? (I've only downloaded
the free copy of version 9 so far and hashtags are only allowed in the
deluxe version - so I can't experiment/play with them. Answers to the
above questions may become "obvious" once I have the deluxe version??)
I thought one of the features that was being written into "the next
version" of Legacy (a.k.a. version 9) was same sex marriages. But, from
what I'm seeing, this still is not allowed. And I don't see any mention
of it in the "what's new" info. I'm sure I've seen posts saying the
programmers are working on this feature (or at least looking into it),
but it looks like it still isn't there. Is there an ETA for this feature?
Thanks,
Bob
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