Thank you Cathy. I'm sorry now that I didn't pay more attention to this feature. I have a very large db of descendants of my earliest American immigrant ancestors (from the early 1600's). I've been going through the numerous lines of descent to find families that have limited descendant information, beginning around the early 1800s. When I would find one, I would put a Tag 5 on one of the parents. I could have used the "Ancestor / Descendant Interest" feature to do the same job, but I since I woke up to the fact that I could use a marriage tag number for this purpose (I have plenty of those available), I'll be using a marriage Tag 5 instead.
Since the FamilySearch historical records collection has recently become such a massive resource, I'm having amazing success in expanding the information on these "Tag 5 lines," mostly using only these records. The Tagging feature in Legacy provides a wonderful way to keep track of various factors in the file. The only problem is that there isn't enough of them! :-) Joseph Leavitt On 1/1/2014 5:08 PM, Kathy Thompson wrote: > I know they exist - I know where they are - what I don't know if HOW > BEST to use them to MY advantage > What sort of things should I be using them for? > How can they help me if I do use them? > Please, give me some examples of how you (those who already do use > them) use them to help you with your research. > > > On 2 January 2014 10:14, Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com > <mailto:genea...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I wondered how many of you knew these were available ;-) > > From the Help file: > > Ancestor and Descendant Interest > > The two fields in the bottom right corner of the Information window > are used to express your interest level in the ancestors and > descendants of the current individual. The value can range from 0 to > 3. 0 indicates no interest. Use 1 for Low interest, 2 for Medium > and 3 for high interest. > > These values can be used in the search section to compile lists of > those people with whom you have an interest. > > __________ > As I said, I don't use them but if you get lost in your file or keep > going off on tangents and realise you've spent valuable time on > people barely connected to your tree, you might want to think how > these could help you. > You could use them to plan 2014 research for example. > Which people do you particularly want to focus on? > > I suggest you use your imagination. They're fields that can be > searched on which makes them valuable. > > Cathy > > At 07:51 AM 2/01/2014, you wrote: > >Can someone please explain to me in simple terms what the > >Ancestor/Descendant Interest boxes are all about, and how they might > >be able to help me? > > 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
