Lea-Anne, Just wanted to also mention that the sentence structure for ANY "event" can be modified to suit your needs. Legacy has included a "Census" event that has a set sentence structure "Soandso appeared on the suchandsuch census in date in place." (or something close to that) You can modify that in the Events list, once for all of your Census events. Or you can override the sentence structure for one event (or maybe a set of events if you override it once and copy the event using the clipboard, for example). Or I think you can even copy the "Census" event to your own version "Lea-Annes Census"...!
Another thing to keep in mind is that all of the events are "generic" in the database. They all have the same fields.... description, date, place, notes. A Residence event looks remarkably similar to a Census event ;) but for the sentence structure. So, from a purely using-the-database viewpoint, you can do anything you want. Legacy just took the time to set up some "standard" sentence structures to assist us. (Well, that sounded a bit "know it all" but thought I am not a Legacy programmer, I do believe that's how it is set up.) Though I'm not an expert on all Legacy reporting options either, I believe every report has one or more options on the format in which to print the events. I've lately been using the FGR, and the option is "list" vs. "sentence"... be sure to check these out, too, as you test your output. One format might be more to your liking. Good luck! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________ From: Lea-Anne Davison <leaannedavi...@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, February 22, 2012 9:40:42 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Trying to enter information that will result in readable reports I think I will experient with what has been suggested. I realise there is no right or wrong way, but how it looks in the report is an important part for me. I think I will try putting in an event whether I call in Event or Residence not sure yet with an condensed description of the family in the census eg John Smith was living with his wife and children (perhaps name each but keep it short). Then source the census with the full details in the text field and see how that looks for the reports. Whether I print it as part of the citation I will decide after I see how it looks but at least this way it will only be once at the end of the report and not repeated all through the report. Thanks everyone for your thoughts. Lea-Anne 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
