Hi Tony and Greetings from Melbourne, Australia. I can think of quite a few other applications for your idea. For instance some census records give the place of employment (e.g. "banksman at Whitworth Colliery") so it would be useful in this way. Could it also be used where a person, for example, is appointed to a position and later resigns so we want to record those different dates? Or a person may have different positions (e.g. secretary, president etc) at different times in one organization. In addition some business people have two entries in directories - one for the business and one for the residence. At the moment I have all these examples recorded as multiple (messy) events so I like the idea.
Best wishes, -- Jenny Coates www.jcch.com.au http://jcch.pbworks.com/ On 26 October 2012 11:32, Tony Rolfe <geneal...@gillandtony.com> wrote: > I have just found a school admission register for one of my cousins. > This gives the school to which she was admitted and her home address. > Now I'm a lumper as far as event sentences are concerned and I don't > like having multiple Legacy events describing one physical event. With > the current event sentence structure, we can only have one location in a > sentence, so I can either use the home address or the school address, > but not both. > > Also, with the current scheme, we have to build 8 sentences, depending > on which fields are filled. Adding one extra possibility into the > current scheme would mean 16 sentences and two more would mean 32, which > would be silly. > > I have designed a completely new approach to building event sentences, > which means you can have as many variables as you want in just one > sentence. If you need 2 dates, 3 addresses and 4 narrative fields, > that's fine. You can even do simple logic, such as describing a child > as "baby" up to 3 months, "infant" from 3-12 months and "child" above 12 > months. > > Now this is a complete rewrite of the event sentence area of Legacy and > they won't touch it unless there is a perceived demand. If I'm the only > one who would like this, so be it. However, if there is sufficient > support from this list, I'll go to the next stage and send it in as a > request. > > So, what does everyone think? > > Tony > > 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
