Ron, Please forgive me for asking you something that has nothing to do with your present conversation. Let me tell you where this is coming from to help you understand what my hangup is. I've been researching for over 40 years and have amassed a beautiful collection of documents that fill several binders. It suddenly occurred to me that I'm getting a little older and that if I were to pass this collection down to our children, they'd be lost. That's because it needs to be better organized. I tried to organize it through the years. Unfortunately, each system of notekeeping broke down as the collection of information increased. I've finally decided to use the system put forth of fileyourpapers.com.
My goal is to go through these records and make the sources as correct as I know how. I'm using the Deluxe version of Legacy and love it. At the same time, the genealogy people in our area are also trying to teach people how to properly document their sources. We are in the throes of inviting those who are interested to move from PAF to Legacy. What that means is that finally after two years of pleading, they are putting the standard version of Legacy on the computers at our center so that we have a choice of which program to use. Now to my hangups. I've bought Getting It Right, Evidence Explained, and the first skinny Evidence book. Also have the Legacy manual. I'd like to buy the E book but can't afford it right now. My hangup is this: I don't understand how the following terms are used: a.. event b.. tags c.. event tags Now before you think me totally stupid, here's my problem. I read in Getting It Right that an event has attributes such as date and time, geographic location, and an activity (event). It's confusing to see the word event in (). I'm not sure what's meant by that. Perhaps my inability to understand event may stem from confusing event with a record or a source. I'm pretty hard wired for these things. What I'm seeing is that some things that have these attributes don't seem to be perceived as events. And so I truly don't understand the concept of an event. Everyone talks about tags. I read through all the tags in Getting It Right. Still, even in the Legacy manual and elsewhere, people seem to expect me to understand what a tag is, specifically what it does, and what it's used for. It's just assumed. I wish someone could gently lead me by the hand and explain this confusion so I can get on with the piles of binders patiently waiting for me to organize them. Could you explain any of these terms in understandable, plain English? Computers don't scare me. However, I haven't quite made a total mental crossover between my records and computers, even though I started using PAF practically the day it came out. Any suggestions you could make would be greatly appreciated. The E book sounds really good, but I can't afford it at the moment; likewise the same for the Legacy videos. They do a great job. My biggest complaint is that after all the reading and digging, I have yet to see an actual example of how a census or a vital record looks when properly entered into Legacy. Also, I'm a little hung up on the anatomy of some of my vital records certificates. For instance, there may be more than one set of numbers on a birth certificate. What do they represent and which does one list and how? I'm sure both sets are important. I hope these questions make sense and that you wouldn't mind enlightening me so I can cross over and get going on this pile of stuff. Thanks, Marion ----- Original Message ----- From: ronald ferguson To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:30 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Searching Location notes field Boyd, It may be that a reply containing rubbish, or nothing, may have been sent as I accidently hit the send button when checking something. What exactly do you mean by "Location Notes". My locations are all part of an Event and the notes are in the Event Notes field. As you said, Event Notes can be searched, although I accept that doing it this way may produce a number of false positives. Please help my tired, old, brain by explaining . Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ *New Tutorial* Publish your Web Pages - Blogs http://www.fergys.co.uk View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Searching Location notes field Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:45:26 +1300 It is common practice to record the location of an event as it was "at the time" of that event. The Location Notes field can then be used to annotate this location with any changes in name, boundary amendments, the current name of the place, or historical notes. Many of the notes fields, and several other rather minor fields within Legacy can be searched from the "Search > Detailed search" procedure. Location Notes do not appear in any of the drop-down selections. Is there any way to search this Location Notes field for a particular (current?) name, or for anything else in that field? Is there a quick way to find which Locations have notes against them? If not, is this something we should ask the programmers to have a look at? Boyd 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BigSnapSearch.com - 24 prizes a day, every day. 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