I do not see why such information would not be adequately handled as an event. To use your family migration:
Event: Migration Desc: TN to AR Date: xxxx-xxxx Construct a sentence definition like: [He/She or Given] participated in the family migration from [Desc] during [date]. [Notes][source] The notes obviously containing the personal history/implications for the current individual. The above is obviously crude, but could gives the general idea. The same sort of group event could be devised for a epidemic or war or whatever and assigned to whoever was involved. Participants could easily be found later by doing a search under master lists/event definitions/show list. A separate category of Family Event would, per force, still require selecting the people to include, still show identically on each report, but would not give you the flexibility of separate detail notes and sourcing for each person. If there is some special aspect that I don't see, please explain. Wm Voss Dan Cline wrote: > > I have encountered numerous occasions where information, occurrences, > data, whatever, pertain to an entire family, and even spill over into > the extended family. At the same time, these events or data, because of > their nature, have no singular connection to an individual, but > implicate everyone. > > Currently it appears you cannot record family events in Legacy, only > individual events like a burial or birth. What do you do with a typhoid > or small pox epidemic, or the wholesale migration of family groups from > TN to AR. I have been putting these under husband or wife, but they > don't belong there, and actually look ridiculous in reports. I am at a > loss, except to conclude that genealogy software allows mostly bean > counting (who begat whom, when and where). Or Maybe there is a good > reason why family events or notes are not allowed. Dunno. I don't like > not knowing. > > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
