Great idea. Joint events of a married couple (like a residence or anniversary) make perfect sense to record as Marriage Events. And they still can be shared with others (like the children).
I’m finding a couple of difficulties in the implementation. First, I find I want a separate Master Event Type for something like residence so I can construct the Event Sentences slightly differently. So I’m using “Joint Residence” under Marriage Events vs “Residence” for an individual. Other Marriage Events like “Wedding Anniversary” only apply as Marriage Events so I don’t need the alternate version. Second problem is bugs in the sentence constructs are making it difficult to get the sentences the way I want them, but that will clear up in time. Mostly impacts when I Share the “Joint Residence” event from the parent couple to the children. The [CoupleFirstNames] or [MainCoupleFirstNames] functions are only returning the name of the mother. From: Judith [mailto:judithsfamilyt...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 2:43 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Events Hello: I would like some thoughts on where to record certain events for a married couple. I started out recording under the individual names, then found I had duplicates in the Chronology view, so I moved the shared events, like residence to the Marriage tab. Do you record all joint events in the marriage tab and individual events in the person’s tab? I have not tried the new ‘shared events’ option as yet, would that be the solution to this? Thanks Judith 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
