ORIGINAL WRITER HERE: KENT MYRICK I think this one is the answer. I've never used either User ID or the AFN field, so either one is available to use as a "House of....." field.
I'm experimenting, but I think this will do what I wanted. Thank you all for the suggestions, though many went over my head. I don't have Access or Excell or Office. And I'm not a computer guru. I just felt that Legacy, with all its facets, had an answer for me somewhere. I've used Legacy for about 3 years, and am constantly finding new applications. I didn't explain my purpose fully because it didn't seem relevant, and I see I confused some of you. For that I apologize. I'm Moderator of a research group of Frazier Cousins on Yahoo, with about 120 cousins as members. We share family photos, files, etc. This group grew out of a gathering of names for a reunion about 8 years ago. That's when we conceived of assigning people to various "Houses", by ancestral line. It was a bit of whimsy that proved to be fun, popular AND handy, as it broke a large group down into manageable segments. This was especially handy for gathering people together for family photos, as the group photo of 40+ people was a bit unwieldy. Lately I've thought of reviving that grouping by House, again mostly for fun, but also to group people in my Cousins group with their closest relatives in the group. The people are already in my Legacy files, I just needed a way to note them by House. So thanks to all of you again, and I'm sorry for any confusion I caused! Kent Myrick in Phoenix, where spring is here and the flowers are blooming! ----- Original Message ----- From: M. Brenzel To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:09 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Re:SORTABLE LISTS? How about putting "House of David" etc in the User ID field for each appropriate person. Then you can search on that and create a list. From the search list, you can select the information to print in the report from the Print button. You can output the "report" as a CSV file and bring it into Excel. Mary --------------------------------------------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Re:SORTABLE LISTS? Is there any kind of report (file) Legacy can make that will show simple line items, such as: Kent Myrick House of David E-mail address I need to be able to sort the file. I can do it in a word processor file, but it would really simplify things for me if Legacy can do it somehow. Why? Several years ago we had a Frazier family reunion. Our immigrant ancestor had 7 children, and just for fun, we divided the group up by their names, e.g. "House of David", "House of Isaac" and so on. We had name tags and a hand-drawn chart showing each House and the members of each who were at the reunion. It turned out to be a fun way of creating smaller groups of closer relatives, and we photographed each House separately. We kept lists of each House by hand back then, but all have since been lost and re-creating them is a labor I'd rather not take on again. BUT all those people are in my Legacy file, and if I could somehow permanently note them in a file, I'd be ecstatic. I know there's one way to do it with the Address File. There are already blanks for name and e-mail address, and I could put the House in any of the other fields that I don't need. But there's no way to sort that list and print it out except by using the Name Tag function, which doesn't do what I need. Or is there???? And I don't want to use the Tags because they're not permanent markers. Is there any other way? Kent Myrick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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/[email protected]/ 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/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
