If you wish to "do your own thing" just put "[notes]" in the sentence override field (but without the quotes) and in the notes section type in whatever you like. What you input is exactly what you shall get on a report. I use this just about as much as a defined definition approach as it affords flexibility..................... TomM
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of José Mariz Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Godparents Hi Susan Thanks for your clear and clever advice, it seems to go along with my feelings and Ill take it as a good one. Allow me to use it as a challenge to Legacy (or other application) users. Im an historian not a genealogist (no value judgment on this) and an amateur on genealogy matters. I therefore call for experts indulgence for the following reasoning. Genealogy softwares seem to me to be subjugated to output formatting needs. Every single piece of information must be entered in a particular field (sometimes several clicks afar) with the only goal to construct a grammatically correct phrase in the Reports options. Any piece of information that doesnt exactly fits the predefined format requires a tricky and cumbersome solution like the one you suggest. As a newby, I wonder why the softwares doesnt focus on the obvious standard fields (birth, marriage, death, etc.) so that the application produces the core of the report and let the genealogists write their own additional text, based on the multiple tags and Notes fields. Do they think genealogists cant write by themselves? Do they think that genealogists only care about descendant narrative reports or alike, and not about family history, kinship or social relationships (as you recall) and all the comments you could deduce analysing your data? As for my experience in other areas, databases are a repository of information you can use, analyse and interpret, not an automatic way of writing stories. Agreeing or not, I think users should let the software producers to know their feelings about the (seems to me) complication of ingesting data just for the purpose of printing reports. Just a tip. ;-) José Mariz Av. Elias Garcia 78-4º 1050-100 LISBOA 21 797 23 40 96 364 94 86 _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Daily Sent: segunda-feira, 23 de Julho de 2007 21:45 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Godparents Hello José, There are two events called God Father and God Mother. The sentence, when fields are filled, reads like: "His God Father was John Smith." I choose to do things differently. In my christening/baptism notes, I like to put in the sentence "He was baptized by Father J. Doherty and his godparents were his father's cousin, Daniel Kilkenny, and either his aunt Mary (O'Neil) Cooke, or his eldest sister, Mary." This way I get to identify the possible relationship, and it becomes a sentence I would like to read in a history. Then for the godparents, I have cobbled together a definition using the "Honors" event, changing the sentence definition to "[HeShe] was the [Desc] [onDate] [inPlace].[Sources] [Notes]" In description I place the words "godfather to his cousin John's son, Nicholas Cooke," and then I put in the baptism date and the name of the church "Cloone (Saint Mary's Chapel), Cloone, Leitrim, Ireland". (My short sentence version for the church reads "Cloone Chapel of St. Mary, Cloone Parish".) In a report it comes out "He was the godfather to his cousin John's son, Nicholas Cooke, on 30 Nov 1870 in Cloone Chapel of St. Mary, Cloone Parish." I suppose you could just create an event called "Godchild" and enter the sentence definition above. Susan Daily On 7/22/07, José Mariz <HYPERLINK "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a simple question: is there any "best practices" for entering godparents in baptisms and witnesses in marriages? 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