Bill, After you play with Tags for a while you'll find them indispensible. Now, a short primer on Tags....
Suppose you want to find all people in your database named Daniles who were in the 1880 census from New Jersey and whose birthplace was France. This is a fairly simple thing to do in Legacy but you have to make use of Tags to do it. Why? Because Legacy's search can accomodate 3 parameters and this search has 4. Here's what you would would do. Set up a search for Individual, Surname, Equal to, Daniles AND Individual, Event Name, Equal to, Census AND Individual, Event Date, Equal to, 1880. Create List gives you all the Daniles who were in the 1880 census but you want to narrow it down to only those born in France. So, click on Option at the bottom of the List you just created and click on Advanced Tagging, select a Tag level (1, for instance) and select "All Persons in List". Now everybody in your search list is tagged 1. NOW, do a second search for Individual, Tag 1, Equal to, Tagged AND Individual, Birth Place, Contains, France. Click on Create List and you're finished. Play with Tags and be sure to read the Help information. Tags are very powerful and you can literally find anything in your database with them. Another way to use Tags - if you have searched for all the people with some characteristic you need to edit. Imagine there are hundreds of them and you can't finish in an evening. Tag all of them to the same level and click on the Tag to clear it as you complete each edit. Now you can come back anytime and by doing a search for people who are still tagged, you can pick up where you left off. Finally, the Tag menu gives you a place to type in what each Tag level is being used for - USE IT to keep track of your projects. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Legacy Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:52 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] What do you use Tags for? | Can someone explain to me what tags are used for Why you need three | tags with 9 stations in each ? Thank you! As you can see | i'm new! | | Bill Daniles | | Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: | http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp | | To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: | http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ | | To unsubscribe please visit: | http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
