Re: [LegacyUG] Event sharing and media

[Cathy Pinner]

Scott,

Shared Events were introduced in Legacy 8.

I don't use them much. I don't use them at all for Census data.

The ability to export shared events as ordinary events is recent and 
there are still some minor bugs in this.
If, for example, you want to upload a gedcom to Ancestry and most other 
places you can upload a gedcom, they don't have shared events so this is 
vital if you want to include eg your census events in the gedcom.


So before jumping into enthusiastic use of Shared Events consider how 
you output your data.


You probably have better things to do than convert existing events to 
shared events. It's like the addition of SourceWriter sources. No need 
to convert well formatted Basic style sources to SourceWriter.


You could add new census data as Shared Events.

Unless you have another reason to go over your existing Census Events 
(eg you now have access to the images or you always had access to the 
images but just accepted the given transcription without correcting it) 
it's a waste of genealogy time.


Cathy

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Leon Chapman 
Monday, 26 June 2017 5:04 AM
Scott

Simple answer for question 1:
Always add a picture to an event so it will be printed in reports. You 
can have events for individuals and marriage events for family pictures.


Question 2:
It is lots of work to go back and change your past work. May want to 
just use shared events as you go forward with data entry.


Shared events are nice for data entry, but lots of other genealogy 
programs and online databases do not support shared events. So, if you 
want to export your data, you will be better off not using shared 
events. However, I believe Legacy 9 converts all shared events to 
standard events when you export to a GEDCom file. I do not use shared 
events.




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Scott Hall 
Monday, 26 June 2017 4:32 AM
I'm contemplating how to best use events in my file and curious how 
others do it.


1.  I'm starting to add the images of obituaries into my database.  
I'm trying to decide if its better to add them as media under the 
individual or under the event.  Which is more common?  Pros / cons?


2.  I've recently discovered Event Sharing (how long has this been a 
feature?  I missed it).  Do you use this feature?  If so, how?  I see 
a few possibilities:


a.  For census data -- make the head of household the owner, and share 
the event with all members of the household.
b.  For obituaries and other notices -- make the subject of the notice 
the owner, and share the event with others mentioned.


I've experimented to see how this looks for census information ... but 
here's the catch for me ... changing the existing database.  Every 
time there is a new feature its a TON of work to adapt the database to 
it.  For example, with census information, I currently:


* Have each individual member of the household with an individual 
event, such that it reads "He/She appeared on the [census] ..."
* Have married members (in the same household) with a married event, 
such that it reads "They appeared on the [census" ..."


I like the idea of converting to the individual HoH with shared events 
for everyone else, but I have nearly 2200 individuals and over 1400 
marriages with census events ... that's a lot of manual relinking and 
updating.


As for the obituaries, I was thinking something along the lines of 
sharing the events with the surviving individuals, and having the 
sentence read something like: "[Individual] was listed as a surviving 
relative in the obituary of ..."


Thoughts appreciated --- especially on the conversion piece.

Thanks,
Scott



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Re: [LegacyUG] Event sharing and media

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Rather than making yourself crazy converting everything to shared events in one 
fell swoop, you could just do them as you run across them.  Or schedule a 
special time period (say an hour) each day to work on doing them.  I would 
think it would become easier as you get a routine established ... and you'll be 
done before you know it!!  Good luck!
 On Jun 25, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Scott Hall  wrote:

I like the idea of converting to the individual HoH with shared events for 
everyone else, but I have nearly 2200 individuals and over 1400 marriages with 
census events ... that's a lot of manual relinking and updating.
 
Thoughts appreciated --- especially on the conversion piece.
 
Thanks,
Scott



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Re: [LegacyUG] Event sharing and media

[Leon Chapman]

Scott

Simple answer for question 1:
  Always add a picture to an event so it will be printed in reports.  You can 
have events for individuals and marriage events for family pictures.

Question 2:
It is lots of work to go back and change your past work.  May want to just use 
shared events as you go forward with data entry.

Shared events are nice for data entry, but lots of other genealogy programs and 
online databases do not support shared events.  So, if you want to export your 
data, you will be better off not using shared events.  However, I believe 
Legacy 9 converts all shared events to standard events when you export to a 
GEDCom file.  I do not use shared events.



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> On Jun 25, 2017, at 1:32 PM, Scott Hall  wrote:
> 
> I'm contemplating how to best use events in my file and curious how others do 
> it.
> 
> 1.  I'm starting to add the images of obituaries into my database.  I'm 
> trying to decide if its better to add them as media under the individual or 
> under the event.  Which is more common?  Pros / cons?
> 
> 2.  I've recently discovered Event Sharing (how long has this been a feature? 
>  I missed it).  Do you use this feature?  If so, how?  I see a few 
> possibilities:
> 
> a.  For census data -- make the head of household the owner, and share the 
> event with all members of the household.
> b.  For obituaries and other notices -- make the subject of the notice the 
> owner, and share the event with others mentioned.
> 
> I've experimented to see how this looks for census information ... but here's 
> the catch for me ... changing the existing database.  Every time there is a 
> new feature its a TON of work to adapt the database to it.  For example, with 
> census information, I currently:
> 
> * Have each individual member of the household with an individual event, such 
> that it reads "He/She appeared on the [census] ..."
> * Have married members (in the same household) with a married event, such 
> that it reads "They appeared on the [census" ..."
> 
> I like the idea of converting to the individual HoH with shared events for 
> everyone else, but I have nearly 2200 individuals and over 1400 marriages 
> with census events ... that's a lot of manual relinking and updating.
> 
> As for the obituaries, I was thinking something along the lines of sharing 
> the events with the surviving individuals, and having the sentence read 
> something like: "[Individual] was listed as a surviving relative in the 
> obituary of ..."
> 
> Thoughts appreciated --- especially on the conversion piece.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott
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[LegacyUG] Event sharing and media

[Scott Hall]

I'm contemplating how to best use events in my file and curious how others
do it.

1.  I'm starting to add the images of obituaries into my database.  I'm
trying to decide if its better to add them as media under the individual or
under the event.  Which is more common?  Pros / cons?

2.  I've recently discovered Event Sharing (how long has this been a
feature?  I missed it).  Do you use this feature?  If so, how?  I see a few
possibilities:

a.  For census data -- make the head of household the owner, and share the
event with all members of the household.
b.  For obituaries and other notices -- make the subject of the notice the
owner, and share the event with others mentioned.

I've experimented to see how this looks for census information ... but
here's the catch for me ... changing the existing database.  Every time
there is a new feature its a TON of work to adapt the database to it.  For
example, with census information, I currently:

* Have each individual member of the household with an individual event,
such that it reads "He/She appeared on the [census] ..."
* Have married members (in the same household) with a married event, such
that it reads "They appeared on the [census" ..."

I like the idea of converting to the individual HoH with shared events for
everyone else, but I have nearly 2200 individuals and over 1400 marriages
with census events ... that's a lot of manual relinking and updating.

As for the obituaries, I was thinking something along the lines of sharing
the events with the surviving individuals, and having the sentence read
something like: "[Individual] was listed as a surviving relative in the
obituary of ..."

Thoughts appreciated --- especially on the conversion piece.

Thanks,
Scott
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