However, the drawback to entering something in a field where you don't have information (question marks, dashes, unknown, etc) are:
1. If you use the "Missing Information" search tab in the Search window, you won't find the missing information - it's looking for blank fields. 2. If you use the "not equal to" or "equal to" in a Detailed Search and leave the field blank, (find everyone who doesn't have this field blank or find everyone who has this field blank - good search for missing data) the search won't give you what you're looking for 3. If you want to use "Insert underlines for missing" in the book reports, those fields will not be included since again it's looking for empty fields. 4. Blank fields draw attention to the reader in the chart reports. So entering anything in the fields that you don't have information for can impeded your research. I know a lot of people insert a lot of different things but I really don't recommend it. In my early days I did and now I'm sorry (easy to remove for everything but Surname) Mr and Mrs should only be used as a surname prefix.... Legacy will complain if you put that in a given name field Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 8:54 AM, singhals <singh...@erols.com> wrote: > Or for absolute certainty while scanning a list of name : Mr > Ms as appropriate to the known gender. > > MOST folks are clever enough to realize no one uses Mr or Ms > as a given name, it is a blinking flag that more research > needs doing, but it pops off the printed page so when I'm > going down a printed alpha list that isn't color-coded. > Then too -- some newspaper announcements of marriages do > refer to the out-of-town party as "Mr. Smith" or "Miss Jones". > > May not be a "best practice" but it tells me what I want to > know and at first glance. > > Cheryl 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
