Jenny I have set up a registration event as you suggested, but on family view it displays desc/date/ place/notes. I am using the GRO ref as the desc and this looks odd. is there a way of changing the order displayed?
I'm with you for a 7 field display. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 1:32 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Individual Information On 27/08/2013 11:01, Mike Fry wrote: > On 2013/08/27 11:02, Jenny M Benson wrote: > >> One snag is only being able to display 5 fields on Family View. 7 would >> be ideal: Birth, Birth Registration, Baptism/Christening, Death, Death >> Registration, Burial/Cremation, FamilySearchID. > > I think your first problem, as such, is that the Birth, Death and Marriage > Registrations are primarily a UK thing. What you're asking for is a change > to > what is fundamentally a US-centric product. It took some time to get > Legacy to > accept the UK registration quarters as dates and even longer for them to > be used > in some of the internal date and period calculations. I don't see any problem. There must be *many* of us who have created custom Events. I would just be creating 2 more custom Events; I might be the only person ever to create them or some other people might also choose to do so. The only change to the product that I would be asking for is the ability to display 7 fields on the Family View rather than the existing 5. We already have the ability to customise that view to show whichever Events we choose. > > Set them up as Registration events in which the FreeBMD information can be > recorded and sourced if you like. Then if it's the first date enter it so > that > it appears on the Family view. You should probably set up separate > locations for > the Registration Districts as well. You need to distinguish between the RD > and a > town of the same name. I already do that. Later, as you get more accurate information, enter it > initially as an Alt. event and swap it with the less accurate birth/death > or > marriage information. The fact that you now have two events that are > effectively > the same is nothing to worry about. Simply mark what is now the Alt. event > as a > private event. I prefer to keep "Alt Events" for situations where there is conflicting information about the same data. In the case of Registrations, we are not talking about conflicting information, we are talking about additional information. > -- Jenny M Benson 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
