I just add a new Event definition if the event I want isn't there. Have never used Categories in all the years I've used Legacy. Same for adding a new Master Source.
Cheers Jan -----Original Message----- From: my genealogy email [mailto:rgstrongge...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, 9 April 2011 2:39 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Placement of file Jan, This wording "To-Do Category" was taken from the help file when you search on Categories>Adding new categories. The Maser Category List is the same as the To-Do Category. So what I was referring to was to create a new Event with the Category of Correspondence, but since "Correspondence" is not in the default drop down list under Category, the user would have to Add a new Category with the name of "Correspondence" so they could create the source category for that event. hope this clears that up and makes more sense when you reread my post. Russ -----Original Message----- From: Jan Roberts Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 8:25 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Placement of file Why would you create a To-Do Category for a source? Cheers Jan From: my genealogy email [mailto:rgstrongge...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2011 4:27 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Placement of file Jane/Jenny , Since we don’t know what is in the particular letters. Then I would suggest that you create a new To-Do Category of Correspondence and then create a separate Marriage Event for the five letters with the Category Type of Correspondense, Discription: Title of the letter (ie. letter from so and so to addressee), Date": the date of the letter, Place:from location sent if known, and then you could transcribe the letter in the note section. Then after you save it. Run a chronology report to see if it displays as you wish or run a descendant or family group sheet to see if it displays the way you want. If it doesn’t then open one of the event back up and click on the over-ride button and then you can play around with the settings to get it to print out the way you want or just look at the bottom of the Event to see how it changes. Then assign the letter scans as the source for the event: Russ Strong From: sarlesinsi...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 11:36 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: Re: [LegacyUG] Placement of file This is what I am thinking too. I can't see the letters as a marriage event for the father, who was long dead before they were written and isn't mentioned or referred to at all. I just think we need a more general category for stuff that pertains to the family in general. I guess I think in pretty simplistic terms. Jane On Mar 30, 2011 11:20am, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> wrote: > On 30/03/2011 15:52, sarlesinsi...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I am speaking of scanned letters. Each letter gives information about a > > > number of people in the family. I wish there was some sort of general > > > category where we could put information and material that pertains to > > > the family as a whole, rather than having to always assign to one family > > > member. I guess its just the way my brain works. > > > > Well, you don't have to assign things only to one family member. You > > can add the same Event/Source to several people. You can also, as > > someone else said, add an Event to the Marriage, which means you will > > not have a lot of repetition. > > > > I sometimes think that Marriage Events might better be termed as Family > > Events and then people might be more inclined to think of them in that > > way. Up to now I have duplicated nearly all Events which relate to a > > husband and wife (and possibly children) by entering them for each > > Individual, but now I think I could make quite a good case for entering > > most post-marriage Events as Marriage/Family Events. The main objection > > to that is that without some program changes by Legacy you would not get > > all the post-marriage Events on an Individual Report. > > -- > > Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: 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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: 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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: 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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: 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
