Carol, I haven't yet begun dealing with this in Legacy as I am still evaluating the software. However, over my many years as a user of FTM, I have tended to record "family" data in the "marriages" area, usually as notes (given FTM's severe sourcing and events limitations).
It's not ideal, but I've done it because it keeps the information as close as possible to the members of an immediate family. Since I'm pretty consistent about doing it that way, I'm usually able to find what I need fairly quickly. Besides, it indulges my lazier side, allowing me to avoid recording the same fact on 10, 15, 20 or more individuals... ;-) I'm sure there are better ways of handling it, and my review of this list tells me that, when used as designed, Legacy's sourcing will permit multiple references to information without having it print multiple times. So I'm hoping to use this design feature to help me with family-related events. My evaluation of non-FTM platforms continues, and this is one of my "hotlist" considerations. Good luck! Stacey. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of familyjesse Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 7:32 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Foster children I have a question related to this and to census. There are events for husband and events for wife but is there any way to list shared events like vacations, foster children, census.... where all the members of the family were involved or events where husband and wife were involved? It is tedious to add the same event to every single person's file in the family and then it prints out ten times....?? Thanks, Carol -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 9:52 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Foster children Hi Tracy, When you link the foster child, you link to a new relationship so you set special sentence structures in the Marriage Information screen. instead of "had a relationship" try "fostered a child" Check the didn't marry check box as well so that these options are used. Sorry - writing from memory and there may be a couple of other things so read each screen carefully and then check a book report and see whether it reads OK. You also need to right click on the foster child when he's in Family View as a child and go into Children's Settings. There you can set Parent Child relationships and Child status. You then need to choose to include these on Reports. Cathy At 12:07 PM 6/10/2007, you wrote: >Hi Listers >I prefer the family history view of the world, I've got heaps of yyy >begat zzz, which are easy to add to the file. What about foster >children? I've got a cousin and in my family's view he is very much a >member of the family even with no biological ties, he became part of >the family originally as a foster child. How can I add him in to the >file? If I link him to my aunt, the reports come up with the sentence >aaa had a relationship and had a child bbb. Where do I change his >status to foster child? >Cheers >Tracy Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.1/1051 - Release Date: 10/5/2007 12:27 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.1/1051 - Release Date: 10/5/2007 12:27 PM Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
