Can you say more about Ancestor/Descendant Interest? What is it? How do you use it?
C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON -----Original Message----- From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:genea...@gmail.com] Sent: January 01, 2014 06:21 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] how to show end of line Hi Kim, It would help a little to know why and where you want to show "end of line". Legacy has a couple of tools that may help and save using up a tag number. I don't use tags for things that can be found easily - but this is where the why and where comes in. Legacy has a search that will find them. See the Miscellaneous tab. There's a search for direct line ancestors with no parents and another for the entire file for linked individuals with no parents - though this includes people who may not be linked to your main tree and so may need to be used in connection with another search. I only have one file for my family research. I find it too muddling to have people in more than one file so years ago I merged my little surname study and village study into my main file and have never regretted it. It means I have a lot of little trees and unlinked people in my file but they do no harm (and can be seen in the View - Trees) Now with the Duplicate check feature, I'm instantly alerted to the fact I may already have someone in the file. It was driving me crazy to find I'd updated someone who was part of my family in my little surname study but not in my main file - and finding other people in the village were actually family. Yes I could have then used Split Screen or some other way to copy and merge these people over but for me it's far easier not to. I've also done some research for cousins in law etc and it's all there too. So if I were doing this I'd tag the group I was interested in and then run this search on the whole file for linked individuals with no parents and then search within that search list for those tagged x. Another way: Use the Ancestor/Descendant Interest. This is a feature I don't even have turned on. It's at Options - Customise 2.7 and it's a Family File specific setting. When it is on you have two small boxes on Individual 's Information Edit screen which can be set from 0 to 3 These can be searched on so you can find all with Ancestor Interest set at 3, for example. Another way: Add [[end of line]] to the given name. Then it is obvious in the Name List and Index View but doesn't affect output. Another way: Use the suffix field - again making use of privacy brackets. Another way: enter a To-Do with a distinctive category so you can get a list. I'm sure you can think of others. It all depends on why and where you want to mark them. Cathy At 07:47 PM 1/01/2014, you wrote: >Hi to all and Happy New Year. >Does anyone know how to show an end of line in Legacy 8. Done a little >research on one of my families and it's showing 'end of line', I will >keep researching but was wondering. I have used my # 5 tag to show an >end of line family but is there a better way? >Thanks in advance >Kim 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
