I agree with you on the impracticality of a master list of occupations. I think nearly all the occupations I have came from US census listings, and it's not like those enumerators had a standard list they used. The reporting method you provided is enough for me, should I need to examine my file for particular occupations. I think the only really "standard" one I have is "farmer" ;) --Paula
________________________________ From: Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri, February 10, 2012 4:35:03 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] OCCUPATIONS LIST On 10/02/2012 03:26, Paula Ryburn wrote: > How did you figure out how to do all that?? ;) Started by wondering if a specific Event was one of the fields one could select to display in a print-out of the Name List. When I discovered it was, I went back to work out how to get the right Names in the list - was thinking it might involve tagging, but it didn't, of course. > > I think maybe the OP was wanting a drop-down list of occupations to > select from when entering... I don't know... a new field for the individual? I can think of 2 reasons for that being impractical. For one, there are just far too many occupations. Secondly, what would you do about someone who had 2, 3 or more occupations over their lifetime? -- 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
