Mike I had similar issues with date ranges that were reported as errors until I realised that an Event is, I guess, defined as a point in time, not a duration. At least that's my determination of the way Legacy handles it.
The way I got round it is to split the events I had start and end dates for. This worked for things like Residency and I now have "Moved To" event which defines it properly. As for the fuzzy date, i.e., your mid 1950s, I've left them undated and put the information in the notes. I agree that being able to sort these fuzzy dates would be nice and whilst you can sequence in the Events area the Chronology Report makes nonsense of them Bill in Dorset UK -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Christie Sent: 13 December 2004 21:40 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on events Bob Janetzko wrote: > I also used Occupation events extensively for a long time. Most of them > came from census information. Even though the residence on a Census event > applied to a specific date only, the occupation likely spanned many years, > so when I entered those Occupation events, I didn't specify a date. > This left those Occupation events subject to accidentally getting resorted. Over the last couple of days I've been experimenting with the events for occupation and residence for a family member I have a lot of data for. It seems to work OK, and I rather like the little chart you get on the left on the Individual Report. However, not all the dates sort properly. This is not too surprising because some of them are entered in non-standard ways. However, it would be darn nice if Legacy could figure out some of these and sort them correctly -- they're not impossible, just complicated. Here are the dates from the events I entered, in the order they sort into: from summer 1960 to December 1961 in the late nineteen-fifties in the early nineteen-fifties from her birth in 1919 until she went to university from 1962 to 1965 from 1962 to early 1965 from 1965 to 1979 from 1965 to her death in 1981 I suspect the first four are sorted randomly and the last for are sorted on at least the first year found, which is quite reasonable. Is it unreasonable to hope that Legacy would one day be able to sort this list by date? It would be OK if I had to say "1950s" or "1950's" instead of "nineteen-fifties", if that would help. Even just picking out the first year in the text would be a pretty good way to go. Mike -- Athens Group Experience. Technology. Results. ----------------------------------------------- Mike Christie Athens Group Inc. 4201 Southwest Freeway, Suite 220 Houston, TX 77027 Voice: 713.960.5094, ext. 112 Cell: 713.504.6455 Fax: 713.960.5061 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.athensgroup.com 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
