The Legacy Events/Facts area is very adaptable. Note that Legacy 6
heads this area Event/Fact.
You can choose which fields show for each Event/Fact and make more
Event/Fact Types to suit. Whether or not they appear in Reports can
be governed Individually by making that particular use Private or
Globally by making that Event/Fact Private.
On the other hand you could make yourself a Heading within General
Notes and add some of this data before or after your Biography.
You just need imagination and some sort of consistency so you are
clear what you print as part of Reports and what you don't.
As Glen says, you can make them all Events.
I don't see the need for yet another Notes field. The same issues
would arise anyway. For some there are never enough "boxes" and for
others there are already too many.
What is needed is a way of sourcing part of a note (rather than the
whole note) that is consistent with all other sourcing. Currently you
need to add at least an abbreviated form of the sources in notes in
brackets - or only use Events.
Cheers,
Cathy
At 10:52 PM 4/03/2006, you wrote:
On 4 Mar 2006 at 18:13, Cathy wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> Some great ideas in your list. Just commenting on the last
> There's nothing to stop you using the General Notes as a Biography
> and using Biography as the Title in the Book Reports. Other notes can
> be placed in Research Notes.
> See Descendant Narrative Report etc Options - Wording 2 Tab.
>
> In fact since this is how I tend to use General Notes I'm going to
> think about changing this Heading to Biography.
Yup, but then I need somewhere to keep general notes that don't fit into a
copnnected biography. Perhaps one should put them into things like events,
except that they aren't really events. A physical description, something
someone said in a letter about the person. You might use some of them in a
biography, but wouldn't quote them verbatim.
They don't really belong in research notes either - I use that for notes to
myself, unverified information, and things like that. I would not print that
on family group sheets sent to ordinary family members, for example, though I
might send them to those engaged in serious research.
In other projects I collect biographical information about people who are not
related, There I use three fields:
Biography - a connected biographical narrative that will eventually be
published, on the web, in a book, etc. You can see examples at
http://www.dacb.org/
Notes - fragments of information gained from archives, printed books,
interviews and so on, incomplete, and not for publication, but to be sent to
biographers, other researchers etc.
Comments - the equivalent of Research Notes in Legacy -- notes about
conflicting information, possible leads, unverified information, people to
contact etc.
--
Steve Hayes
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