I enjoy seeing how creative people are on this list, at solving oddball problems and sharing their solutions. I bought a portable (clips on the handlebars of the motorcyle or it has a car mount bracket) GPS unit for my husband's birthday a couple of days ago, now I am thinking I might just have to "borrow" that thing. Honest! I never thought of that before this minute!
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Linda Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > 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
