I also use a "work-around" I have used the burial fields with the date of burial (I usually don't know it) and the name of the cemetery as follows: Town-cemetery, county, state for instance:
Red Level-Fairmont Cemetery, Covington Co. AL That way it complies with the town/county/state rule, but I don't have to know the name of the cemetery to find it. Say, if I know someone was buried in New York City, I can find it easier by looking in the index for New York City-xxxcemetery, NY than having to remember the name of the cemetery. I can also use it to group together everyone who is in that cemetery. I use the burial notes for plats and noting others who are buried in the same general area, just in case I find they are related at some future date. I have several cases in my family where someone died in some other place than where they are buried, so I want to have that information in the burial field, rather than just then name of the cemetery. Sometimes I make a note in the "death" notes that he/she is buried in a town other than the place of death, just to remind myself that the burial place is not a mistake. I even have one great great great grandfather whose burial place was moved from one town to another after 75 years, to be with the family. Linda Bischoff From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph Clark Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:24 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it? 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 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
