And therein lies the difficulty of adding occupation to a chart. Which one will the software choose?
Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation br...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 16/12/2014 3:37 PM, Jenny M Benson wrote: > On 16/12/2014 20:19, carogene wrote: >> I add occupations after the marriage place, only for tree printing >> purposes. It can be far more interesting to see a pattern emerge, or not. >> Looking forward to Legacy dealing with this one, it would be a popular >> addition I think. > > The big problem must be that Occupation is not a single fixed fact like > Birthdate/place or Baptism Date/Place but could be a recurrent Event. > Many people have 2, 3 or more occupations in their lifetime. I record > each instance of a person's occupation that I see recorded. For one of > my ancestors this results in: > > 1823 Shoemaker > 1825 Cordwainer > 1826 Cordwainer > 1828 Corwainer > 1830 Labourer > 1832 Labourer > 1834 Cordwainer > 1836 Cordwainer > 1838 Cordwainer > 1840 Cow Keeper > 1841 Rag Dealer > 1847 Cordwainer > 1851 Cordwainer > 1861 Cordwainer > 1871 Greengrocer > 1875 Greengrocer > 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
