Just adding my perspective here, in the spirit of sharing…
For journeys such as ship or plane, you can enter dates in events as 23 Jul 1896-29 Jul 1896. That way you can capture departure and arrival information all against the same event . I find that helpful to reduce the number of events. Also, if you use the calendar calculator for dates (like someone’s birth date based on aged when died) then the ‘Cal’ prefix can remain indicating that it was a calculated date, not a specific date form a specific source (useful). Regarding unlinking wrong children/spouses/parents, I use the tags a lot and have developed a ‘system’ where each tag means something (to just me). So when I link or unlink individuals, I set/reset tags accordingly: Again, sharing so that others can understand/criticize/encourage/further develop/ignore/whatever: As you can see (and here I am open to further suggestions too) I use individual special characters to use as column headings in the Index and Dependent views. So, if anyone has better suggestions, please chime in. Happy hunting, Andrew From: LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com> On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2019 11:26 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] dates Taking up Cathy’s last point, I find that unlinking wrongly-entered or attached people is very useful; I often find that the unlinked person does fit in somewhere. (my use of dates is a bit crude: either a precise date, or Abt. I was unaware of the other allowed entry forms) Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria 3206 Australia From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Cathy Pinner Sent: Sunday, 12 May 2019 1:10 PM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> >; Marina via LegacyUserGroup <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com <mailto:legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] dates Marina I don't know if you are trying to add a double date or a range. If a range, enter 1665-1666 or better use either between 1665 and 1666 or from 1665 to 1666. If it's a double date you need the day and month as well and you need to set Options-Customise 5.4 and note it can only be set for the one change date.Then you enter your date in New Style and for dates from 1 Jan to 24 March, Legacy will add the double date. Yes Legacy will give you a new total but possibly not until you have closed and re-opened Legacy. Also make sure you do File Maintenance - Check/Repair and sometimes Compact File. Note the RINs are not changed and whether abandoned RINs are reused depends on your setting at Options-Customise 4.4 so don't confuse highest RIN with number of people. I prefer to just unlink people I've added in error. That helps me not to go down that rabbit hole again and I haven't lost that work if I discover that they fit somewhere else. Cathy Marina via LegacyUserGroup wrote: Hello I read all your emails regularly but have not yet come across this problem which I think I am having. when i write on the profile a date such as 1665/66 the programe immediately amends the date to 1666 . it will accept 166?. Also if I have had a flight of fancy and added someone who is not mine when I delete this person does Legacy recalculate and re number my grand total of tree members. Thank you Marina <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> &utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> &utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
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