Let me share an idea I got from Geoff Rasmussen. With the flexibility Legacy offers, we can consider entering data in more than one place, then use various options to only include what we want.
For example, the biography data could be entered both as an event AND in the General Notes. - One time you could exclude the General Notes (or the portion in privacy brackets) and just get the information in the Events. - Another time you could include the General Notes but exclude one or all Event Notes. This can be done a number of ways: - Remove the "[notes]" from the Event sentence (requires more effort than the other methods below) - Make the event private and not including private Events - Put the Event Notes in privacy brackets and not include private notes There are very likely other ways to accomplish this. It does require more time in entering the data to get this flexibility so we need to be sure we want it. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:04 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having some personal conflict in whether to add data as a note or an > event and would like some views on where folks place specific data . > > For example - I have a biography from relative A - should I enter it under > the notes or make it an event? another - If entering 1860 census data > showing Uncle Joe's family and those living in his household - note or > event? > > Some observations when preparing a 'book' report - Descendant Narrative : > (1) If I enter data as a note, the information is located immediately under > the persons name as a flowing narrative, which can get rather lengthy plus > would require adding my sourcing information to the narrative if I wanted to > show where I got the information; OR (2) if entered as an event, the data > becomes a short cryptic entry after the name with a footnote. I do note > that the entire data can appear in the footnote, together with the sourcing > material, providing that feature is elected when setting up the source > detail (i.e., selecting 'Add this text to the source citation on reports' > ). > > It may be that personal preference dictates this, but I would appreciate > some insight from others on how they use the notes and events feature. > > Bob > > > > > *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit > http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** > 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 > > > > *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** 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
