Susan, I don't think it's so much how the programmers programmed it. It's how they set up all those default sentence structures for all the events that come with Legacy. Sort of pre-populating the events for you. All you would need to do is change the event's sentence structure to suit yourself. I think that's a lot easier than populating all the events and/or their sentence structures from scratch! ;) --Paula
----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Military Service event - description field That's kind of what I was thinking, Cathy. I just wondered what the Legacy Programmers were thinking would be placed into the Description Field so that it would read clearly in their predefined sentence. For example, with the Residence event, the definition is "[HeShe] resided at [Desc] [onDate] [inPlace].[Sources] [Notes]" -- the programmers added the word "at" to make the Description make sense. I would have thought that they'd program the Military Service (and Discharge) event definition to include the little words like "as a" or just "as". So I will go ahead and redefine the event definition. Thanks for the discussion. Susan On 7/8/05, Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since in some views and reports, you don't get the Sentence but more a > list > style, I'd suggest you change the Default sentence and leave words such as > "as a" in the Sentence rather than th Description. Take a look at the > Chronology View where events are Listed - Date - Event Name - Place - > Description - followed by Notes if you've chosen to include them > > It needs to make some sense both ways. > > Cathy > At 08:57 PM 8/07/2005, you wrote: > > >I should have looked at my event definition first - I did not change at > >all. Mine read: "He served in the military as a private with the United > >States Army" or "He served in the military as a Captain with the United > >States Navy". If you have no detail perhaps: "He served in the military > >as > >a member of the uniformed services during World War I" It is also best > >to spell everything out as there are many individuals who have service > >with foreign services such as the Royal Flying Corps (England), Canadian > >Flying Corps I, etc. in WWII or perhaps the foreign brigades in Spain > >during their Civil War. My wife has an English ancestor who served as a > >Lt. with the German army in the early 1800s. To avoid any confusion > >always > >spell everything out. > > > >Tom........ > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[email protected]> > >Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 9:27 PM > >Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Military Service event - description field > > > >Thanks for responding, Tom. I should have noted that the event > >sentence definition is: > >"[HeShe] served in the military [Desc] [onDate] [inPlace].[Sources] > >[Notes]" > > > >Perhaps I should simply remove "in the Military" then from the default > >so it will read as you describe below? > > > >Susan 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 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
