Charlie, I think many will agree with you that "witness" may not be the correct term but on the other hand witness IS the term that a lot of genealogists use for the situation as described by Ron. I'm relatively new to this stuff so I kinda go with the flow most of the time. One of the things some people have been asking for is a way to tie multiple individuals to a common event. I've seen it described as a "list of a master events" that would be like the list of master sources. That way you could assign multiple individuals to an event instead of having to repeat the event for every person.
For instance I have 15 family members listed in one Census. In order to document this as an "event" I have to repeat all the documentation 15 times. Having to do this for hundreds of census' gets very time consuming. I too thought V6 would address this problem but I also respect the fact that programming the function could be difficult. Am I going to quit using Legacy. No... I still think Legacy is a great program and the Legacy staff ARE very helpful and responsive to the customers. And, like someone else said. "Not every program is going to do everything everybody "wants." Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Donaghe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:30 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] witnesses Sorry Ron, But to my way of thinking that is NOT a witness. A witness is someone who has witnessed an event, such as a marriage, death, birth, etc. Now if you have proof that all those people were at home when the census taker was there all well and good, but if not then they were not witness. You are carping about wanting to change a well established word to fit something that is actually an event that can be linked to multiply persons which Legacy already does. Just my $0.02 worth this AM, Charlie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Bernier Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 5:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] witnesses In this case the term witness doesn't mean that they were actually present when the census was taken. They were participants in the census in that they were listed as part of the household. As a "witness", you would link them to the census event with their appropriate role. -- Ron Bernier --On Friday, August 26, 2005 4:29 AM -0500 "Ruth A. (Sconza Testa) Nerud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just don't see how other members of a household listed in a census can > be called "witnesses". Some of those people probably weren't home at the > time the census taker was there i.e., at work or at school - so how can > they be called witnesses? > > Ruth Nerud > [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 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
