Hi Susan, Thanks for your replay - also very useful. I se now, how the Legacy fields, sentence definitions and narrative descriptions in Notes, can be combined in a very powerful way of writing up my family history.
My initial thought was to record all hard facts in Legacy, generate a report/book and then add all the narrative descriptions using a word processor. I now see that this would be not only unnecessary, but also ill-advised as I would have to maintain two sets of genealogy files. Thanks Erik -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af Susan Daily Sendt: 16. februar 2008 17:37 Til: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Emne: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on (compound) event Hi Erik, Jenny has some good answers for you. I, too, am not sure what you mean exactly by your last sentence, a field length being too short. In sentence override, you can add [Notes] to the end of the definition, and add more detail in the Notes. I consider the first trip to be the immigration, and any return trips to be travel (so use Travel event). But I suppose it might depend on the person. To be honest, I even consider some people who settled her for a few years before returning to their native country permanently as having immigrated, because I believe that was their intent until life threw them a curveball and they had to go home. In your list below, first I would do residence event. I think I redefined my residence event so that it reads ~description in place in date~ thus the street and town go together before the date. In the next seven items, I list them all in the immigration or travel event. I did not redefine this event. I list the description as "aboard the S.S. Scythia"; the date as the date of arrival, and the Place as the port of arrival. But then in notes, I write, "It sailed from Queenstown on 30 Apr 1897, and she appeared to have traveled alone with only one dollar. She came to stay with her sister Cath Cooke of Gloucester St., Boston, but was going to Mrs. Killelea[[Killides]] at 237 Pearl St. in Cambridge first." Another example has "aboard the S. S. Germanic with her sister" and the Notes say, "The ship sailed from Liverpool, England. Bridget, age 17, was a servant, and carried one bag. Mary A., age 15, was also a servant, but had two pieces of baggage. They were off to stay in Ravenna, Ohio." I hope these ideas help, Susan Daily On 2/16/08, Erik Pilgaard Vinther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some advice on how to document a person's initial trip from Denmark > to USA before the permanent immigration using events. [snip] > The person's residence in Denmark: <dk residence> > The port of departure: <port of departure> > Date of departure: <date of departure> > Name of the ship: <ship name> > Number of travel agent contract: <contract#> > The port of arrival: <port of arrival> > Date of arrival: <date of arrival> > The final destination in the US: <us destination> > > The person later returned to DK after this trip before the final immigration > to USA. > > I'm also doubtful if I should register the initial trip as one or two events > (departure & arrival). Also I'm in doubt whether the final 'movement' to US > should be registered as an emigrations or as an immigration event, or both. > > Thanks > Erik > > PS! I did experiment with the Sentence Overwrite, but I found the filed > length to short to fit all the relevant details 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
