Scott,
Shared Events were introduced in Legacy 8.
I don't use them much. I don't use them at all for Census data.
The ability to export shared events as ordinary events is recent and
there are still some minor bugs in this.
If, for example, you want to upload a gedcom to Ancestry and most other
places you can upload a gedcom, they don't have shared events so this is
vital if you want to include eg your census events in the gedcom.
So before jumping into enthusiastic use of Shared Events consider how
you output your data.
You probably have better things to do than convert existing events to
shared events. It's like the addition of SourceWriter sources. No need
to convert well formatted Basic style sources to SourceWriter.
You could add new census data as Shared Events.
Unless you have another reason to go over your existing Census Events
(eg you now have access to the images or you always had access to the
images but just accepted the given transcription without correcting it)
it's a waste of genealogy time.
Cathy
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Scott
Simple answer for question 1:
Always add a picture to an event so it will be printed in reports. You
can have events for individuals and marriage events for family pictures.
Question 2:
It is lots of work to go back and change your past work. May want to
just use shared events as you go forward with data entry.
Shared events are nice for data entry, but lots of other genealogy
programs and online databases do not support shared events. So, if you
want to export your data, you will be better off not using shared
events. However, I believe Legacy 9 converts all shared events to
standard events when you export to a GEDCom file. I do not use shared
events.
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Scott Hall <mailto:[email protected]>
Monday, 26 June 2017 4:32 AM
I'm contemplating how to best use events in my file and curious how
others do it.
1. I'm starting to add the images of obituaries into my database.
I'm trying to decide if its better to add them as media under the
individual or under the event. Which is more common? Pros / cons?
2. I've recently discovered Event Sharing (how long has this been a
feature? I missed it). Do you use this feature? If so, how? I see
a few possibilities:
a. For census data -- make the head of household the owner, and share
the event with all members of the household.
b. For obituaries and other notices -- make the subject of the notice
the owner, and share the event with others mentioned.
I've experimented to see how this looks for census information ... but
here's the catch for me ... changing the existing database. Every
time there is a new feature its a TON of work to adapt the database to
it. For example, with census information, I currently:
* Have each individual member of the household with an individual
event, such that it reads "He/She appeared on the [census] ..."
* Have married members (in the same household) with a married event,
such that it reads "They appeared on the [census" ..."
I like the idea of converting to the individual HoH with shared events
for everyone else, but I have nearly 2200 individuals and over 1400
marriages with census events ... that's a lot of manual relinking and
updating.
As for the obituaries, I was thinking something along the lines of
sharing the events with the surviving individuals, and having the
sentence read something like: "[Individual] was listed as a surviving
relative in the obituary of ..."
Thoughts appreciated --- especially on the conversion piece.
Thanks,
Scott
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