Hi All, What is the difference between Focus Groups and Tags?
When would you use each? Val On 30 Jan 2005, at 21:44, Brian Schultz wrote: > I use focus groups often. I have found it to be a valuable tool. > > You can start by doing a search using focus group on the Miscellaneous > Searches tab. You can go back and forth, adding more to the focus > group by adding the Current Search Results. You can 'see' what you > have by looking at the search list. > > Then, when you want to export or do what ever it is that you want to > do with it, you can choose to use the focus group, or the current > search list, or tag them as well. You can also save the focus group. > > -- > > Brian Schultz > Hood River, OR > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 08:41:11 +0800, Cathy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Paula, > > You'll have to ask someone who uses them. I gave up > long ago as you can't > *see* who has been included until you do the > export or run the report > (Family Group Sheets and Individual > Reports) and it was too easy for me to > drag in people I didn't want. > > > If the branches in your tree and their connections don't > intermarry with > other branches in your tree or their connections, > it's a simple matter to > isolate a branch. However I have multiple > examples of connections of one > branch marrying connections of > another branch since several of the branches > lived in the same area > in Dorset and several others in South Australia from > early European > settlement. That's without the occasional first and second > cousin > marriages. I find these connections interesting and sometimes > > helpful in finding a way around a brickwall. > > I use tagging to > select groups and NEVER use Entire Line options. > > It seems you > should end up with the same result with focus groups if you > use the > same options and the advantage is you can save focus group > > combinations - I think as many as you like. > > The difference between > tagging and focus groups is that on export, you can > add surrounding > people, like the parents of spouses, if you've used tags, > but not > with focus group. I always want to do this as it shows far more > > clearly who the spouse is. To learn that Joe married Mary SMITH isn't > much > help. (Come to think of it, she was a brickwall in my direct > line - my > gggrandmother Mary SMITH born abt 1822 London. Now it's > John SMITH, her > father who inconsiderately died before the 1851 > Census. ;-) ) > > Another difference *may be* that the focus group > does the relevant search > when used, rather than when set up, so that > if you've added more people to > the line they are picked up. If > you've set a tag group and then come back > to use it later, it > doesn't pick up any new relevant people. > > The solution would be to > be able to tag a focus group AND/OR to add the > export options for > surrounding people to focus group export. > > Cheers, > Cathy > > At > 00:03 29/01/2005, you wrote: > > >Cathy, > >I once tried to use Focus > Groups but found it not very intuitive. Do you > >know the intent of > Focus Groups? Wanting to know circumstances in which I > >might want > to do more "digging." > >Thanks, > >--Paula > 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
