Bob, I agree on all points... ;) Re: Occupation vs. Census events - I don't enter Census data as Events... just as Sources. (No, I'm not trying to start that discussion again on this list!)
Re: Medical conditions - I'm mainly trying to record my generation and back 2 generations for my daughter's information. So, I can ask my parents for details on their parents. For example, one item of interest might be breast cancer. --Paula 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 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
