John: Using the Rolodex just for living people could be a best practice that you want to follow. Personally, I use it for much more than just living people. As examples,
1. Location of a Source repository 2. Location of a Church (where married) 3. Location of a Cemetery 4. Location of a Hospital So, in general, I use the Rolodex for the following: 1. People's address (living) 2. Locations - almost any type The address/Rolodex was probably originally developed and used to print Name Tags for family reunions or gatherings. In that case, you would only use it for living people. Remember in almost any genealogy software, you can use the basic features for other things. As an example, Legacy has a Calendar feature (Deluxe version I believe) which most people would use for living people's birth & marriage dates of the immediate family as an annual calendar. You can add pictures, etc to the calendar. I also like to have the major Holidays on my calendar. You can create a separate Legacy database for just the holidays as follows: 1. Use then use the field "Given name" for the Holiday -- New Year's Day 2. Use then use the field "Birth date" for the Holiday date - January 1, 2005 That is all of the data you enter for each Holiday date and your data base is a Holiday Database. You can then merge this Holiday database with the database that has the people you want to include on your calendar and then print your calendar. My merged database would probably be only about 20 people (immediate family) plus the holiday entry's. In the Holiday example, I have use the fields of the Legacy database for something completely different than it was designed for - but it is very useful in this case. Bottom line, there are many ways to use various parts of Legacy -- that's one of the nice things about Legacy -- Flexibility. Chap Leon Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Murray Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Place for location of marriage Hello Leon, Brendan. Margaret, Rob, Debbie Thank you all for discussing this topic with me. I have just been looking at the training videos and Geoff Rasmussen states The address Rolodex if for recording living people ! So I was a little confused by this. When one looks at the Sample family file for ASA Clarke BROWN that comes with Legacy there is no mention of the exact address just general locations. OR am I missing something again Regards John Manchester England ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leon Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 7:39 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Place for location of marriage > Brenda: > > Do Report, Report Menu (Charts), > At the center bottom of window, select "Report Options" > Under the Include Tab, > Check box next to: 1st item (Addr for birth, chr, death, bur, marr) > > Chap > > Leon Chapman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
