Bruce McArthur wrote: >my brief experience > with Legacy, it seems to me that its only major shortfall compared to TMG is > the way it handles witnesses, in short it doesn't really do it at all except > via notes fields. I notice I am not alone in noticing this. > > In TMG you can attach a list of witnesses to an event for the principal > person or persons (e.g. husband and wife). Thus for a census all the other > people resident in the dwelling, family or otherwise, are attached as > witnesses to the census event. The advantages are that the event only has > to be entered once rather than on every person as in Legacy, and if an > individual printed report is later produced for one of these witnesses, > he/or she is recorded as appearing on the census with the principal(s). > This can be used for recording ministers, witnesses at marriages (often > family members not previously known about), witnesses to registrations of > births and deaths and so on.
You can accomplish most of what you want by putting all the data for a wedding, for example, in a source, and attaching the source to all the people mentioned in the document. People who are not part of the family line can be added to the Legacy data base as unlinked people with the source note attached to them. The source can be attached to a marriage, or marriage event, wedding event, etc. When a report is printed for a family or individual, the source will be included with all the wedding info linked to them. You can find every reference to a minister or witness by looking for him in the name list, and reviewing or printing a report on him with all sources. Jay 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
