Re: [LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name

2016-09-12 Thread Elizabeth Verchio 
If you use 2 brackets on either side of whatever you put between, it 
becomes invisible in some reports.

For unknown maiden names I do the follow:
Johnie Doe is the husband, his wife is Sally UNKNOWN
In Sally's surname field I enter  [[JohnieDoe]]
This way, when I see her name in a list I can more readily identify who 
she is.
I also have a tag for unknown surnames.  When I want to work on missing 
surnames, I Search on the tag number.
Everybody seems to have their way of dealing with unknown names, mostly 
it depends on how you want that person to look in reports, charts, and 
if you do or do not want to use Legacy's built in search for missing data.

Cheers
Elizabeth
Legacy user since March 2008


On 9/12/2016 3:26 PM, Georges Sarrazin wrote:


If I remember, some years ago, someone suggested to use [--?--], and 
almost everybody at that time supported that suggestion.


Georges

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Everyone's going to have their own idea on this... I leave any unknown 
info blank.


Why??

1. Legacy's Missing Information tab in the Search window won't find it 
as missing information if you have anything in that data field


2. Insert Underlines for Missing. in book reports won't insert 
underlines if there's anything in the field.


If you want to enter any data in a field that you're not sure of, I 
would strongly recommend making a To-Do to search out the correct 
information.


Sherry

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Pete Beatty <pete.bea...@gmail.com 
<mailto:pete.bea...@gmail.com>> wrote:


I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing
portion of a Name.  I have numerous entries were the current
person’s name partially known.  Is there a accepted identifier
that can be used to signify “UNKNOWN”? I currently use “Unknown”
for either portion of the name.





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Re: [LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name

2016-09-12 Thread Gene Wheeler 
*1. Legacy's Missing Information tab in the Search window won't find it as
missing information if you have anything in that data field*

Yes, but can always search on "_" to see where there are.

Gene

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Sherry  wrote:

> Everyone's going to have their own idea on this... I leave any unknown
> info blank.
>
> Why??
>
> 1. Legacy's Missing Information tab in the Search window won't find it as
> missing information if you have anything in that data field
>
> 2. Insert Underlines for Missing. in book reports won't insert
> underlines if there's anything in the field.
>
> If you want to enter any data in a field that you're not sure of, I would
> strongly recommend making a To-Do to search out the correct information.
>
> Sherry
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Pete Beatty 
> wrote:
>
>> I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing portion of a
>> Name.  I have numerous entries were the current person’s name partially
>> known.  Is there a accepted identifier that can be used to signify
>> “UNKNOWN”?  I currently use “Unknown” for either portion of the name.
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Re: [LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name

2016-09-12 Thread Georges Sarrazin 
If I remember, some years ago, someone suggested to use [--?--], and almost 
everybody at that time supported that suggestion.

 

Georges

 

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Everyone's going to have their own idea on this... I leave any unknown info 
blank. 

Why??

 

1. Legacy's Missing Information tab in the Search window won't find it as 
missing information if you have anything in that data field

2. Insert Underlines for Missing. in book reports won't insert underlines 
if there's anything in the field.

If you want to enter any data in a field that you're not sure of, I would 
strongly recommend making a To-Do to search out the correct information.

Sherry



 

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Pete Beatty <pete.bea...@gmail.com 
<mailto:pete.bea...@gmail.com> > wrote:

I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing portion of a Name. 
 I have numerous entries were the current person’s name partially known.  Is 
there a accepted identifier that can be used to signify “UNKNOWN”?  I currently 
use “Unknown” for either portion of the name.


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Re: [LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name

2016-09-12 Thread Sherry 
Everyone's going to have their own idea on this... I leave any unknown info
blank.

Why??

1. Legacy's Missing Information tab in the Search window won't find it as
missing information if you have anything in that data field

2. Insert Underlines for Missing. in book reports won't insert
underlines if there's anything in the field.

If you want to enter any data in a field that you're not sure of, I would
strongly recommend making a To-Do to search out the correct information.

Sherry



On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Pete Beatty  wrote:

> I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing portion of a
> Name.  I have numerous entries were the current person’s name partially
> known.  Is there a accepted identifier that can be used to signify
> “UNKNOWN”?  I currently use “Unknown” for either portion of the name.
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Re: [LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name

2016-09-12 Thread Pete Beatty 
Gene
Thanks, that is what I needed

Pete

> On Sep 12, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Gene Wheeler  wrote:
> 
> The New England Historic Genealogical Society, in a book entitled "Guide To 
> Genealogical Writing", says to use exactly five (5) underscores for an 
> unknown name. Thus, I recently did a mass change of the use of "Unknown" to 
> the five underscores in Legacy. For one thing, this makes the fact stand out 
> that the name is not known when scanning a list of names, or otherwise.
> 
> Gene
> =
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Pete Beatty  wrote:
>> I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing portion of a 
>> Name.  I have numerous entries were the current person’s name partially 
>> known.  Is there a accepted identifier that can be used to signify 
>> “UNKNOWN”?  I currently use “Unknown” for either portion of the name.
>> 
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Re: [LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name

2016-09-12 Thread Gene Wheeler 
The New England Historic Genealogical Society, in a book entitled "Guide To
Genealogical Writing", says to use exactly five (5) underscores for an
unknown name. Thus, I recently did a mass change of the use of "Unknown" to
the five underscores in Legacy. For one thing, this makes the fact stand
out that the name is not known when scanning a list of names, or otherwise.

Gene
=



On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Pete Beatty  wrote:

> I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing portion of a
> Name.  I have numerous entries were the current person’s name partially
> known.  Is there a accepted identifier that can be used to signify
> “UNKNOWN”?  I currently use “Unknown” for either portion of the name.
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[LegacyUG] Identification of "UnKnown" name

2016-09-12 Thread Pete Beatty 
I am a little confused on how to properly identify a missing portion of a
Name.  I have numerous entries were the current person's name partially
known.  Is there a accepted identifier that can be used to signify
"UNKNOWN"?  I currently use "Unknown" for either portion of the name.

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