Everyone has their own needs and preferences. (It must be hard for genealogy programmers to fulfill all those needs!!!).
But I try to simplify things in my own mind. So for me, an event is simply what happened (born, lived at, moved to, died, etc.) and a record is a record of those events. So for me, an obituary would be a record. -----Original Message----- From: M. Brenzel [mailto:brenze...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:27 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event But you can also look at it as a fact in the person's life. An obituary was published for the individual. -----Original Message----- From: Doug Laidlaw [mailto:laidl...@hotkey.net.au] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:03 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event I would think of it as a source. It is not something that happened in the history of the individual in question, but an entirely separate piece of documentary evidence. Doug. On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:04:45 -0800 (PST) Marg Strong <tiny...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Speaking of obituary event (someone recently used it as an > illustration) I didn't think of it as being an event, but as a source, > with the transcription in the detail. > > > If it were listed as an event, then it would be seen in the body of > the report, but as a source, it would be found in the > footnotes/endnotes so the event seems an advantage, having relatives > who will be sent my "book" after I am happier with my entries. (I'm > cleaning them up a bit every day) I'm fairly sure that most will skim > over the footnotes/endnotes or not read them. Do you use it as a > source or event or both, when you have few or no other sources for the > death? > > Thanks for you ideas on this, > Peggy > 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
