On 21/08/2019 19:45, James & Judith Novinger via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
You said that your method is not the same as mine. How do you include such narrative information?
I use the Description field to include all the information about each person. Mostly I am working with UK Censuses, so a Desc field might read "Joe Bloggs; head of household; married; aged 42; born in Anytown, Someshire; General Labourer (employed)". For a woman in the 1911 Census, the Desc field might read "Fanny Adams; wife; currently married for 12 years with 3 living children & 1 deceased; aged 33; born in Anytown, Someshire."
In both cases I then use the Notes field to list all the people in the household, eg "The household comprised Joe Bloggs 123, his wife Jane Doe 56, their son Fred Bloggs 961, visitor Tom Brown, a Domestic Servant and 2 Boarders." The numbers are the RINs which I always include because it makes it very easy to distinguish the right person among several with the same name and people who have any entry in my tree have their names in bold.
This is not a perfect system because it means a lot of duplicated information if I build a Report which includes Event Notes, but I would edit out the duplication if sending someone such a report. It's very rare that I have to!
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