Wendy, What a wonderful, insightful, kind, extensive response. I've used tagging 'forever,' yet you've given me new ideas. Thanks for being on our list & sharing. --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: Wendy Howard <wendy.how...@gmail.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2013 8:15 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Tagging Hi Rich, Think of tagging in Legacy like looking through a book and putting coloured adhesive stickers (flags) on the pages you want to go back to, sticking out so you can find them easily. And being able to remove them easily when you're finished with them. Like "Post-it" brand flags and other similar products on the stationery market. If I recall correctly, the default is to not have tags showing. Go into Options > Customise > General and tick the box "Enable tagging options" if you want to make use of it. That's also where you choose which three tags to show at any time - you can change this as your needs change. You can tag people and marriages in Legacy, for whatever purpose you want. You can label the tags to remind you what they mean. You can set tags on everyone found in a search, or search for any particular tag to see who has it. In my database I use one tag to mark people I want to include in online trees (I generally only include ancestors, their siblings, and the people who married them - enough to make contact with others who have similar interests). This makes it a quick job to export those people to a new file when I want to update my online trees. Another tag is used for people I've been in contact with - currently over 100 people, so easy to inadvertently forget someone and with the tag it's quick to identify them when I want to, including for telling others connected to the same line about them so I can put them in contact with each other if that is desired. Other tags have been used for a variety of purposes as I've had a need for them. Another use is that you might want to tag people born before or after a particular date - or in a particular place - so you can make sure you've checked birth, death, electoral or census records in a particular database for them all, removing the tag off each person as you complete that check. There's a lot of information about tagging in the Help files within Legacy. Press the F1 key, or click on the icon for Help in the main toolbar (if you have it showing there), or in the menu at the top of the Legacy window click on Help > Show Help Index... to get there. And keep asking questions here, so we can help you find the answers. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Richard Falzini said the following on 17/06/2013 12:09 p.m.: > > Hello, > Every now and then I see someone mention tagging here. > > I don't know how or what that feature is, is it mandatory optional? > > By tagging what would I gain? > > Should I start to tag my records, if I do can someone explain how it > is done? > > Thanks > > Rich > > 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 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
