Marie, I think you are concerned about situations where some sources only tell you the year, while other sources perhaps only the month, and maybe others give the full date. I'm trying to imagine how this would look in a report with footnotes/endnotes. Would your proposal require superscripts after each component of, say, 23 June 2013? If a source gives the full date, how would that superscript be distinguished from these component superscripts?
Perhaps you intend that the source superscripts all go together at the end of the fact, and one must drill down within Legacy to see which components were sourced? If so, that's fair, but I think my preference would be to use the current system of adding a note to the source detail Comments field to clarify which part of a fact the citation applies to. (Or optionally adding a short note to source detail text and making that text printable in reports.) Ward -----Original Message----- From: Mike Fry Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 12:09 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marriages On 2013/06/23 17:40, mvmc...@aol.com wrote: > That's basically what I've been asking for since I started to use Legacy, > a very > short while after Virtual Roots was sold. Just to split the day, month > and year > into separate fields. I'm not a programmer but if Howard Nurse could do it > with > the old Roots programs why can't it be done now? I don't believe that particular change is necessary. You can always add 3 different dates entered 3 different ways and source them separately. For example, you can have a Birth date and two Alt. Birth events. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg (g) 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
