Thank you Kristen. I am coming to the same conclusion. When thinking of
future descendents - isn't that why some of us do this? - I cannot imagine
them going through Legacy to find information or reading through a Legacy
prepared "book". Of course printed trees are always crowd favorites and
good guides to the generations but I too have decided to use Legacy
primarily as a database and write the narratives separately based on the
data.
The "book" reports are tantalizing but not really adequate as an end
product, though they might supplement some of the hand composed narratives
and perhaps provide a more complete list of known facts.
Thank you all for sharing your thoughts.
Jeff
Kirsten Bowman wrote:
Jeff:
I agree that in any narrative report (from any genealogy software
program) the language is going to be stilted, repetitive, and fairly
boring. Professional genealogists and history writers use software
for recording facts and then convert those to narratives written from
scratch. I do use the Descendant Book Report extensively, but only
to exchange data with other researchers. When studying a family
group, I use events to build a timeline but don't bother with
tweaking the language.
Kirsten
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Most used narrative reports
I am curious as to which Legacy "narrative/book" reports are most
used as generated by Legacy or found to be most useable by
experienced Legacy users. Do any users print these narratives as
created, or are these raw reports usually transferred to a word
processor where they are extensively re-edited or even re-written.
I ask because many of the legacy created sentences read so awkwardly
(no fault of Legacy, a computer generated text can only do so much)
that I wonder if it is really useful to take the time to create
alternative sentences in Legacy or just send the material to Word
where the reports can be re-written in good English.
Jeff
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