Paula, 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. And when there were several Census events with interspersed Occupation events it didn't always read clearly which occupation went with which census. It probably didn't help that I put the Occupation event after the corresponding Census event, since it seemed to me that Census was a major event and Occupation a minor event. This gave the impression that the occupation covered the time period after the census rather than before. Eventually I gave up on recording Occupation events for the Census and placed the occupation information into the Notes field for the Census entry in a form similar to "[He/She] worked as a ----- in the ----- business/industry." Since the Notes print right after the sentence that is generated from the Census Event, it reads very well, there is no danger that the occupation will get separated from the corresponding census, and the sentence is short enough that it is not a bother typing it. So far I've stayed away from recording any medical information. Partly because that's the easy way out and partly because there are so few individuals for whom that information is available. The cause of death field is there to use, but without an actual death certificate, that kind of like hearsay. And the death certificates that I've seen list a number of primary and contributing causes that are a total mess to try to decipher (like a prescription), even for people that I knew. It is the additional medical issues a person may have had that would be of interest to descendants concerned about their own health, but that data is not easy to come by without all the doctor's records. Descendants would likely be interested in the fact that an ancestor had been afflicted by (unrecorded) high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or diabetes. The (recorded) cause of death being drowning or a car accident is not very helpful at all, at least health-wise. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paula Ryburn Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 14:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Advice on events Mike, The main events I have been entering are also Residence and Occupation, typically from census data but also from interviews. I enter Residence events for Individuals and for Marriages (families). I had to fiddle with the sentence structure on Occupations, but I'm pretty satisfied with it now. I also use the various Military and Education/Degree events and have set up a couple of my own. These latter are mostly in Notes format. For example, "Comet" -- I saw it the last time it came around, and my grandmother saw it the time before. I have been trying to figure out how best to record medical conditions... events vs. notes. But, since this is only a hobby, I haven't been able to spend much time testing the output. I did catch a recent post here about software available from the Surgeon General and will look into that the next time I have a good chunk of hobby time open! (say, after New Year's??) --Paula ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Christie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 10:24 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Advice on events I would like to get advice on useful ways to use the events in Legacy. It seems possible to enter an almost infinite amount of data as events, but I'm not sure how useful that would be. Censuses will always show up in the source list, for example; marriage, birth and death will show up as dates. Do people find these useful? I would like to get residency and occupation information, but it doesn't seem to naturally fit in an event format, and so I currently enter this free-form in the general notes. For example, an ancestor of mine is listed as a carpenter on every source that gives occupation from 1839 to his death in 1894. I suppose I could enter an event that has no date, but gives "Carpenter 1839-1894" in the description field. Similarly for residences; I know of two or three addresses for this ancestor, but not exactly when he moved. Would you enter a separate "Residence" event for each source and date documenting a residence, or instead enter one for each address, giving a range of dates in the description? Are there any other events that people find useful, and worth the trouble of entering? 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