Michele Spot on. What is the point of allowing sharing with names only if no index of the names is maintained anywhere?
Another question is what happens to these shares when the data is exported via GEDCOM. I have examined a GEDCOM exported by Legacy and the data is there under a _SHAR tag. Obviously if you import this GEDCOM to software which does not support shared events (FTM2012 for example - I don't know about FTM2014) then the shares will be lost. Rootsmagic, however, does support shared events and had no problem correctly importing the name and role. So there is some sort of standard for sharing events. However, RootsMagic also had the same problem of not being able to locate the names not in the database. Am I wrong in thinking that it all seems a bit pointless and if you think you may need to refer to these names then, as you say, you must add them to the database or, at the very least, mention them in the event notes so that they can be located. David On 13/01/2014 15:37, Michele/Support wrote: > David, > You are correct. I had never tried to add someone to a shared event that > wasn't already in my database but I just tried it and it worked exactly as > you described. I am not sure how helpful this is though because if I ended > up adding this person later as a relation (and I didn't remember that I had > put her an shared event) Legacy isn't going to pick up on the fact that this > person is already in my file. If I were to link a person in a shared event I > would add them to the database in case I needed to find them again. > > > Michele > Technical Support > mich...@legacyfamilytree.com > www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Newton [mailto:lugda...@drdavid.plus.com] > Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 6:04 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Shared Events - witnesses, clergy, doctors, etc. > > Michelle > > Your statement that you in order to share events with a person is to add them > to your database is not correct. For example, my grandmother was a servant in > 1901 and I have shared her 1901 census with the head of household by name > only without adding her to the database. Her name shows up in the individual > report for my grandmother as "shared with Mary Smith (Head of Household)" the > role I gave her. > > However, if I needed to search for Mary Smith the only way I can find so far > is to do a search and replace on citation text and that only works because I > always transcribe a census household into the citation text. > Searching for her within the Head of Household role obviously doesn't work if > she is not in the database. > > > > > 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
