Rob, Basic events have several variations from other events as well as pictures omitted from Legacy reports. Many researchers keep busy with random data entry for years, only to discover they cannot search for hidden details or print useful reports.
Take a look at the Individual's Information screen in Legacy 6 and you will see that Born, Chr, Died, Buried fields have dates and locations but no Description field like Events/Facts listed below. If you use Legacy style master locations -- town, county, state, country -- it is necessary to enter hospital, church or cemetery details for those events in different fields. Every Legacy user has to find a suitable method and remember to enter data so it can be searched. eg. all the events that took place at a historical church before and after changes to county boundaries. If you want the church or cemetery name to print on wall charts, make sure the selected method allows that option. Place holder commas show up in a Legacy GEDCOM export for locations with no counties or unknown towns so I do not use master locations. Traditional genealogy reports start with a summary of basic events along with marriage information unlike other events that follow. Events can be listed in date order or joined together in sentences with a big difference in the spacing of Legacy reports. You don't need to enter the same data more than once, just PLAN to enter the data and pictures in a way that will allow Legacy output in the style you prefer. It is a lot of work to move notes or pictures with captions if the original choices are unsuitable. If you share data with others or plan to use a second genealogy program, make sure the Legacy-style data entry is kept in a GEDCOM transfer. One GEDCOM I received printed up to a dozen repeated footnotes on the same page of a non-Legacy report using the original program. It had lengthy obits in a field that were cut to three lines by Legacy and other programs that followed the GED 5.5 "standard." PAF 5 kept only one line of the long source text. The easiest family books to plan have basic events (one of each) with conflicting details and all other events combined into a single biography-style note for each individual. The more fields used to enter event detail and sources, the more work it is to plan a readable book. -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Miller" > Why do Birth-Event pictures (and from what I have read on here > Marriage-Event pictures) not print in Legacy report? Having to create > custom > events (i.e. "Birth-reg") to display the main events seems to force users > to > input the same data more than once? 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
