It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before the (burial) town name.
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do a workaround (sort of). I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or > City it is in, to show on my Individuals Information window, directly > below the Death date. > > If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information > screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize > Family View Information. You can then choose, by using the drop down > field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in > the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in.. > > I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name > for the fifth field. > > Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff. They have by > default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it > or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual > burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment > normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one > really cares what day the burial took place. It is the death date > that is really important statistically. > > I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there > should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery > name. My workaround? > > I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the > place into the Burial Place field. When Legacy tells me I made a > mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit > OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date. > > I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add > notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the > persons Events window. Thats fine for secondary information about the > death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the > tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery > name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of > information fields. > > Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most > of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report). > By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town > information, in all my default reports simply by selecting Birth, > Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu. > > I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it works > great! > > > > 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
