Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Allison Nelson]

I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
below the Death date.

If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..

I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
for the fifth field.

Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
that is really important statistically.

I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
name.  My workaround?

I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.

I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
information fields.

Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
information, in all my default reports  simply by selecting Birth,
Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.

I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it works great!



Legacy User Group guidelines: 
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages: 
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Randolph Clark]

It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before the
(burial) town name.

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
> City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
> below the Death date.
>
> If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
> screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
> Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
> field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
> the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..
>
> I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
> for the fifth field.
>
> Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
> default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
> or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
> burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
> normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
> really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
> that is really important statistically.
>
> I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
> should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
> name.  My workaround?
>
> I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
> place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
> mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
> OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.
>
> I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
> notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
> persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
> death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
> tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
> name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
> information fields.
>
> Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
> of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
> By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
> information, in all my default reports  simply by selecting Birth,
> Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.
>
> I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it works
> great!
>
>
>
> Legacy User Group guidelines:
>   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
> Archived messages:
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
>
>
>
>




Legacy User Group guidelines: 
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages: 
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Janis Gilmore]

Nice workaround, Allison.

I agree that the burial place matters, and the date of interment does not
matter. I have generally entered the burial date from the death certificate,
simply because the slot exists. But I like your idea better. 

Thanks for sharing it.

Janis Walker Gilmore

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allison
Nelson
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 12:05 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
below the Death date.





Legacy User Group guidelines: 
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages: 
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Linda Bischoff]

I also use a "work-around"
I have used the burial fields with the date of burial (I usually don't know
it) and the name of the cemetery as follows:
Town-cemetery, county, state for instance:

Red Level-Fairmont Cemetery, Covington Co. AL

That way it complies with the town/county/state rule, but I don't have to
know the name of the cemetery to find it. Say, if I know someone was buried
in New York City, I can find it easier by looking in the index for New York
City-xxxcemetery, NY than having to remember the name of the cemetery. I can
also use it to group together everyone who is in that cemetery. I use the
burial notes for plats and noting others who are buried in the same general
area, just in case I find they are related at some future date.

I have several cases in my family where someone died in some other place
than where they are buried, so I want to have that information in the burial
field, rather than just then name of the cemetery. Sometimes I make a note
in the "death" notes that he/she is buried in a town other than the place of
death, just to remind myself that the burial place is not a mistake. I even
have one great great great grandfather whose burial place was moved from one
town to another after 75 years, to be with the family.

Linda Bischoff


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph
Clark
Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:24 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before the
(burial) town name.
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
below the Death date.

If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..

I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
for the fifth field.

Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
that is really important statistically.

I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
name.  My workaround?

I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.

I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
information fields.

Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
information, in all my default reports  simply by selecting Birth,
Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.

I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it works
great!



Legacy User Group guidelines:
  http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
  http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp



Legacy User Group guidelines:
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp




Legacy User Group guidelines:
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Allison Nelson]

Your idea of putting things in parenthesis might work in other areas
for me!  I don't want to do that in the place field, because that
means I would end up with several entries for the same town in my
Locations lists, which I try to keep super clean.  I keep my master
lists and sources as neat and tidy as I can, because my sister and I
share a database by using intellishare.  Establishing standard methods
of entry has dramatically decreased the amount of cleanup we have to
do after merging.

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Randolph Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before the
> (burial) town name.
>
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
>> City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
>> below the Death date.
>>
>> If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
>> screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
>> Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
>> field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
>> the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..
>>
>> I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
>> for the fifth field.
>>
>> Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
>> default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
>> or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
>> burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
>> normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
>> really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
>> that is really important statistically.
>>
>> I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
>> should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
>> name.  My workaround?
>>
>> I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
>> place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
>> mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
>> OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.
>>
>> I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
>> notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
>> persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
>> death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
>> tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
>> name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
>> information fields.
>>
>> Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
>> of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
>> By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
>> information, in all my default reports  simply by selecting Birth,
>> Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.
>>
>> I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it works
>> great!
>>
>>
>>
>> Legacy User Group guidelines:
>>   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
>> Archived messages:
>>   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
>> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
>> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
>>
>>
>>
>
> Legacy User Group guidelines:
>http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
> Archived messages:
>http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp



Legacy User Group guidelines: 
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages: 
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[ronald ferguson]

Randolf,

Why in parentheses? I have always put the full names and towns etc in the 
Location field, eg. House Name (or number), Street, Parish, Town/City, County, 
Country. OK, this does not suit the USA centric (no offence intended) geo 
location finder etc. but causes no other probelms at all.


Ron Ferguson

_

New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office
http://www.fergys.co.uk
View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:
http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/
For The Fergusons of N.W. England See:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/
_







Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:23:34 -0400
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before the 
(burial) town name.


On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
below the Death date.

If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..

I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
for the fifth field.

Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
that is really important statistically.

I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
name.  My workaround?

I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.

I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
information fields.

Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
information, in all my default reports  simply by selecting Birth,
Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.

I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it works great!







_

All new Live Search at Live.com

http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl001006ukm/direct/01/


Legacy User Group guidelines:
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Kris]

Hi, Randolph,

I've tried to do it this way several different times and over all I like 
the results.  The problem comes in when I try to create a web page. 
Most of my cemeteries don't have a town associated with them, so if you 
enter:


(Old Hill Cemetery) Washington County, Minnesota

you get an error (no such county exists).  I just click "ok" and go on, 
but in the web page, in the name list, the location appears thus:


<(Old Hill Cemetery) Washington County, Minnesota>

I'm assuming if I turn off county verification, this won't happen 
anymore, but I like the fact that it does that.  (Although, as an aside, 
I do have to laugh when I get an error when using the information from 
the Geo database!  If it's wrong, why is it in there?  LOL!)


I'm also assuming if I put a coma between the (cemetery name) and the 
county, I won't have this problem, but I don't want a coma there.


If you have this problem, have you resolved it?

Allison's method sounds good, too, since most of the time I don't have a 
burial date anyway, but I'm wondering if it will cause some other 
problem down the road that I can't foresee right now.


Thanks

Randolph Clark wrote:
It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before 
the (burial) town name.


On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
below the Death date.

If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..

I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
for the fifth field.

Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
that is really important statistically.

I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
name.  My workaround?

I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.

I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
information fields.

Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
information, in all my default reports  simply by selecting Birth,
Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.

I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it
works great!





Legacy User Group guidelines: 
  http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages: 
  http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/

Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[ronald ferguson]

Kris,

You are correct, if you turn the geo-verification off there is not a problem 
(it's not much use in the UK anyhow). Personally I never use it, other than 
occasionally asking if it knows where some place is. 


Ron Ferguson

_

New Blog: Free Contacts Database for use with Open Office
http://www.fergys.co.uk
View the Grimshaw Family Tree at:
http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/
For The Fergusons of N.W. England See:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/
_



> Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 22:05:28 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?
>
> Hi, Randolph,
>
> I've tried to do it this way several different times and over all I like
> the results. The problem comes in when I try to create a web page.
> Most of my cemeteries don't have a town associated with them, so if you
> enter:
>
> (Old Hill Cemetery) Washington County, Minnesota
>
> you get an error (no such county exists). I just click "ok" and go on,
> but in the web page, in the name list, the location appears thus:
>
> 
>
> I'm assuming if I turn off county verification, this won't happen
> anymore, but I like the fact that it does that. (Although, as an aside,
> I do have to laugh when I get an error when using the information from
> the Geo database! If it's wrong, why is it in there? LOL!)
>
> I'm also assuming if I put a coma between the (cemetery name) and the
> county, I won't have this problem, but I don't want a coma there.
>
> If you have this problem, have you resolved it?
>
> Allison's method sounds good, too, since most of the time I don't have a
> burial date anyway, but I'm wondering if it will cause some other
> problem down the road that I can't foresee right now.
>
> Thanks
>
> Randolph Clark wrote:
>> It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before
>> the (burial) town name.
>>
>> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson > > wrote:
>>
>> I do a workaround (sort of). I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
>> City it is in, to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
>> below the Death date.
>>
>> If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
>> screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
>> Family View Information. You can then choose, by using the drop down
>> field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
>> the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..
>>
>> I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
>> for the fifth field.
>>
>> Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff. They have by
>> default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
>> or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
>> burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
>> normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
>> really cares what day the burial took place. It is the death date
>> that is really important statistically.
>>
>> I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
>> should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
>> name. My workaround?
>>
>> I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
>> place into the Burial Place field. When Legacy tells me I made a
>> mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
>> OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.
>>
>> I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
>> notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
>> persons Events window. Thats fine for secondary information about the
>> death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
>> tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
>> name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
>> information fields.
>>
>> Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
>> of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
>> By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
>> information, in all my default reports simply by selecting Birth,
>> Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.
>>
>> I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it
>> works great!
>
>
>

_

All new Live Search at Live.com

http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl001006ukm/direct/01/


Legacy User Group guidelines:
   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages:
   http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/
Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Allison Nelson]

I enjoy seeing how creative people are on this list, at solving
oddball problems and sharing their solutions.   I bought a portable
(clips on the handlebars of the motorcyle or it has a car mount
bracket)  GPS unit for my husband's birthday a couple of days ago, now
I am thinking I might just have to "borrow" that thing.  Honest!  I
never thought of that before this minute!

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Linda Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I also use a "work-around"
> I have used the burial fields with the date of burial (I usually don't know
> it) and the name of the cemetery as follows:
> Town-cemetery, county, state for instance:
>
> Red Level-Fairmont Cemetery, Covington Co. AL
>
> That way it complies with the town/county/state rule, but I don't have to
> know the name of the cemetery to find it. Say, if I know someone was buried
> in New York City, I can find it easier by looking in the index for New York
> City-xxxcemetery, NY than having to remember the name of the cemetery. I can
> also use it to group together everyone who is in that cemetery. I use the
> burial notes for plats and noting others who are buried in the same general
> area, just in case I find they are related at some future date.
>
> I have several cases in my family where someone died in some other place
> than where they are buried, so I want to have that information in the burial
> field, rather than just then name of the cemetery. Sometimes I make a note
> in the "death" notes that he/she is buried in a town other than the place of
> death, just to remind myself that the burial place is not a mistake. I even
> have one great great great grandfather whose burial place was moved from one
> town to another after 75 years, to be with the family.
>
> Linda Bischoff
>
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph
> Clark
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:24 PM
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?
>
> It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before the
> (burial) town name.
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
> City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
> below the Death date.
>
> If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
> screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
> Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
> field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
> the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..
>
> I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
> for the fifth field.
>
> Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
> default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
> or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
> burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
> normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
> really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
> that is really important statistically.
>
> I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
> should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
> name.  My workaround?
>
> I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
> place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
> mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
> OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.
>
> I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
> notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
> persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
> death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
> tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does not give me the cemetery
> name where I need it and thats with the person's main set of
> information fields.
>
> Unfortunately the info from the =Add fields, does not show up in most
> of the reports (without a lot of mucking about building the report).
> By doing it the way I do, I have the Cemetery Name and Town
> information, in all my default reports  simply by selecting Birth,
> Bap, Death, Burial (all four) in the main report menu.
>
> I have worked with it this way for probably 5 years or more and it works
> great!
>
>
>
> Legacy User Group guidelines:
>   http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.co

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Cathy]

In fact with the mapping it's an advantage as you can only map 
locations, not addresses. For a modern location, if you have the 
street in the location, Virtual Earth pops the pin right on it.
But I've never gone for the USA "standard" location entry. It doesn't 
make sense with my locations. I just enter locations consistently 
from smallest unit to country.


Cathy

At 10:23 AM 25/05/2008, you wrote:


Randolf,

Why in parentheses? I have always put the full names and towns etc 
in the Location field, eg. House Name (or number), Street, Parish, 
Town/City, County, Country. OK, this does not suit the USA centric 
(no offence intended) geo location finder etc. but causes no other 
probelms at all.



Ron Ferguson





Legacy User Group guidelines: 
  http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
Archived messages: 
  http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/

Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp
To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp

RE: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

[Linda Bischoff]

Allison, I have used a portable GPS for the past 5 years. I take that thing
right to the headstone, or old homestead, or whatever I'm looking at, and
copy the coordinates so that I have it for future reference, or can direct
someone to the exact stone without a map of the cemetery (if they have a
GPS). Those things are within 8 ft of being accurate, so it should be easy
for someone to find a place/stone that way.  Linda

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allison
Nelson
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 7:20 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?

I enjoy seeing how creative people are on this list, at solving
oddball problems and sharing their solutions.   I bought a portable
(clips on the handlebars of the motorcyle or it has a car mount
bracket)  GPS unit for my husband's birthday a couple of days ago, now
I am thinking I might just have to "borrow" that thing.  Honest!  I
never thought of that before this minute!

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Linda Bischoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I also use a "work-around"
> I have used the burial fields with the date of burial (I usually don't
know
> it) and the name of the cemetery as follows:
> Town-cemetery, county, state for instance:
>
> Red Level-Fairmont Cemetery, Covington Co. AL
>
> That way it complies with the town/county/state rule, but I don't have to
> know the name of the cemetery to find it. Say, if I know someone was
buried
> in New York City, I can find it easier by looking in the index for New
York
> City-xxxcemetery, NY than having to remember the name of the cemetery. I
can
> also use it to group together everyone who is in that cemetery. I use the
> burial notes for plats and noting others who are buried in the same
general
> area, just in case I find they are related at some future date.
>
> I have several cases in my family where someone died in some other place
> than where they are buried, so I want to have that information in the
burial
> field, rather than just then name of the cemetery. Sometimes I make a note
> in the "death" notes that he/she is buried in a town other than the place
of
> death, just to remind myself that the burial place is not a mistake. I
even
> have one great great great grandfather whose burial place was moved from
one
> town to another after 75 years, to be with the family.
>
> Linda Bischoff
>
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph
> Clark
> Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:24 PM
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Re: How do you do it?
>
> It's not necessary if you place the cemetery name in parentheses before
the
> (burial) town name.
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Allison Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> I do a workaround (sort of).  I want the Cemetery Name and the Town or
> City it is in,  to show on my Individuals Information window, directly
> below the Death date.
>
> If you right click your mouse button on the Individual's Information
> screen, right on the word Died, it will open a window called Customize
> Family View Information.  You can then choose, by using the drop down
> field buttons at the end of the field, what fields you want to show in
> the Individuals Information window and the order they appear in..
>
> I chose Burial Date/Place, for the 4th field, and 1st Alternate Name
> for the fifth field.
>
> Here is where I differ in opinion from Legacy staff.  They have  by
> default called this field Burial Date / Place and you cannot rename it
> or supposedly use it for anything else. I believe that the actual
> burial date is rather immaterial, since the actual burial / inurnment
> normally takes place within 3 or 4 days after the death date. No one
> really cares what day the burial took place.  It is the death date
> that is really important statistically.
>
> I believe the cemetery name is infinitely more important and there
> should be a field on the Individual's Information for the cemetery
> name.  My workaround?
>
> I simply type the cemetery name into the Burial Date field, and the
> place into the Burial Place field.  When Legacy tells me I made a
> mistake (Unrecognized Date) I simply ignore the error message and hit
> OK, and it neatly inserts the cemetery name below the death date.
>
> I contacted Legacy about this and Sherry recommended using the + Add
> notes, pictures, address button, or adding burial information in the
> persons Events window.  Thats fine for secondary information about the
> death, such as Lot numbers within the cemetery, information about the
> tombstone, GPS location, etc., BUT it does