For my own records, I use an event for adult baptism, and the baptism place for infant baptism. This helps because adult baptisms tend to come back as errors because of age at occurance. Other people may use these differently. Because of the quirks of this and other programs, when I have an infant baptism only, I will put the birth as bef bpdate. This is a throwback to before programs understood the sameness of the two. People have mentioned that 'how can you be sure?' . I have found that if a child is baptized/last rites at birth/death situations, the cleric usually notes the double edge of the ritual. But in most cases, the child is baptised a month or two later, when the mother is able, and allowed to return to church. This is my ntake on why they have both, but there are no RULES eithetr way. Good luck in futhur finds. RIch in LA CA -----Original Message----- From: Norma Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Apr 12, 2004 6:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Baptism fields
I'm a new Legacy user (about 2 months now) and have a question I've not seen asked (or answered) elsewhere. In edit mode, there is a space to enter the baptism date and location. This shows up on the view screen (if that's what it's called). There is also the opportunity to enter baptism as an event. However, this shows up only on the events screen. So... my questions are: 1) why are there two places to enter baptism? and 2) is there an easy way to move the baptism data from an event to the other field? So many of my individuals have baptism dates and no birth dates that it is very important to see it on the main screen. However, I imported a very important getcom recently that treated baptisms as events. Other than doing it manually, is there any other way? Thanks in advance, Norma Elliott Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Rich in LA Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
