Steve,
So long as you are consistent, you can use the Description field however
you like. The Event Sentence Definitions can be tweaked or completely
re-written to suit your use of the field.
The sentences simply give a guide to one way of using them.
The Census sentences are set up for US censuses and I think you enter
State or Federal or whatever type of census you're recording.
I mostly have English census data and use the description field for head
of household and relationship to head. I did most of my census entering
before Legacy had shared events so if I was starting now I might do it
differently.
Cathy
Steve Hayes wrote:
On 17 Jan 2017 at 10:53, Cathy Pinner wrote:
The problem that Geoff was/is avoiding by not using the description
field was not that it didn't export but that the programs he was
importing into didn't have a place for it.
I don't know whether that's the case with anything these days. I've
never heard anyone mention it.
The problem I had with the Description field is that it is not really
clear
what it is for, and what one should put into it.
I put some things in the description field that came out really weirdly in
reports, like "He appeared in the farmer aged 43 census of ....."
So it looks as though the Description field is for the date and placed
of the
census, but there are already fields for the date and place of the
census, so
why put them in twice?
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