Wayne, The nice thing about Legacy is it provides an area of cause of death and then and area for Medical Notes. You can use these to your advantage in a few ways.
If you run into a term you don't recognize, you can look it up here: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwkidz/oldmedterm.htm Consumption is defined as Tuberculosis. Now you can list either as the cause of death, but I prefer to use the old terminology since it gives the family history flavor. You can put (Tuberculosis) in parenthesis to educate your modern readers who haven't done genealogy. (As you guessed, nearly all experienced genealogists have run across this word before!) Legacy also allows for [[Private]] notes that can be viewable to you, but not printed out in a report, if you select that as an option. So you can choose to define some more obscure terminology that way for your own use, or for printing in a report. Edema is one word that I've explained in further detail this way. I hope this helps. Susan On 2/27/07, Wayne Boian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My question for the group is really two parts. What is "consumption" as a cause of death? and As a matter of procedure when entering notes or data into the various fields in the program, should words like "consumption" (as used above) be defined or translated into today's common language usage or should we enter the information "as is" in the original documents.
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