I have not used the the Descendant or Ancestor
Interest settings. They are sort of buried,
especially for someone converting to Legacy and not
doing a lot in the edit window.
Seems like it would be a logical addition to display
the Descendant or Ancestor Interest level on the
Family View similar to the three tag buttons above the
name. Obviously, it would be a setting, not a button
and wouldn't even need to be changeable from here,
just displayed.
Martin Hahn
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Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:02:54 +0800
From: Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Colours, links and tagging
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Mike,
Welcome to the Legacy List.
In Legacy you can separately source the link to Father
and the link to
Mother and give those sources a surety level. However
you can't do visibly
quite what you want.
What I do is to add a word in brackets to the Given
Name. Then it is
obvious on screen and in reports that I'm not sure of
this link. In fact I
would normally not share this link until I was sure
and begin reports at
the next generation.
I have things like Peter (probable) Houstoun and James
(guess) Craig.
Probable as he was a witness at children's baptism and
the family had kept
a death card for him. Guess because this is the only
Craig with a James
born on the right date in the Scottish OPR - not a
strong basis but worth
checking out to find the next generation back.
You could perhaps use the Descendant or Ancestor
Interest for this purpose.
They only show on the Individual Screen though so may
not be visible enough
for you. They have the advantage that you can search
for them which you may
find useful for research purposes.
From the Help File:
>Ancestor and Descendant Interest
>
>The two fields in the bottom right corner of the
Information window are
>used to express your interest level in the ancestors
and descendants of
>the current individual. The value can range from 0
to 3. 0 indicates no
>interest. Use 1 for Low interest, 2 for Medium and 3
for high interest.
>
>These values can be used in the search section to
compile lists of those
>people with whom you have an interest.
Re colours of tags. It's just the colour of the tag
square. If you have the
Deluxe version you have 9 tags but, on the Family
View, can only show three
at a time. Colour coding them can help show which ones
are showing or what
they represent, if you respond quicker to colour than
to number.
Cheers,
Cathy
At 06:49 PM 8/12/2004, you wrote:
>I just joined this list after hearing about it on
soc.genealogy.computing
>-- someone suggested that I post my question here.
I'm a fairly new user;
>I've been using Legacy since earlier this year.
>
>Here's my question: I'd like to do is find a way to
flag the confidence of
>a link between two individuals, preferably in a
visual way. I can use
>tagging (which I've just discovered) to mark
individuals that I feel
>research is complete on, but what I really want to do
is mark the level of
>confidence of their link to other individuals, which
I don't see how to do
>with tagging.
>
>Here's an example. I have a James Hermiston, b.
about 1849 in Scotland; I
>am completely confident about his links to his wife
and children. His
>father, from James' marriage certificate, is Robert
Hermiston. The IGI
>shows a James Hermiston christened 28 Feb 1849 in
Sprouston, Roxburgh,
>born to Robert Hermiston and Elizabeth Pringle. I
can find no other James
>Hermistons born in this time period with a father
named Robert.
>
>This is quite possibly the same Robert, but obviously
I have more work to
>do to be sure. What I currently do is put Robert and
Elizabeth into the
>tree, and enter a research note giving my confidence
in the link -- in
>this case, about 25% -- and commenting on the next
steps. What I really
>would like to do next is find a way to mark the link
of James to Robert as
>100% (after all, I know that Robert Hermiston is the
right name); and mark
>the links between Robert and Elizabeth and James and
Elizabeth as
>25%. Actually, I don't care about the numbers;
colours would do just as
>well -- green, yellow and red, for example. I'd use
green for 100%, red
>for below 50%, and yellow in between.
>
>The value of this is that when I look in pedigree
view, I have a quick way
>of identifying weak links, which is where I'd like to
focus my research.
>
> From the comments on s.g.c, I assume Legacy has no
such feature. If
> there's another way to achieve the same goal, I'd be
very interested to
> hear about it.
>
>Finally, a related question. Is there a way to have
individuals with a
>given tag show up in a given colour in either the
family or pedigree
>view? I found the tag colour section of the colour
tab under
>options-->customize, but I can't figure out what it
does.
>
>Thanks, and sorry to post such a long question first
time.
>
>Mike
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