Re: [LegacyUG] More thoughts invited on Event Sentences
Jenny, I would enter the date of the event, not the date of the source. For example, if the event is that the person lived at this Residence at the time of his death, then the event date is his death date. When the source itself was recorded is not the event... its date will be in the citation. Thoughts? --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams From: Jenny M Benson To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, August 17, 2011 11:41:21 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] More thoughts invited on Event Sentences I know that is is probably preferable to edit Reports in a wordprocessor to get the best results and that many people do this. I don't often have cause to print Reports but I like to have my Event Sentences designed to produce a reasonably grammatical and sensible output whenever possible. LUGgers recently assisted me towards the decision to have separate Events with different wording, including some part of the EventName in [[privacy brackets]] for Events which can be "done by" or "done to" an individual. Now I am turning my attention to Events - Facts, to be more accurate - where the "Source" occurs after the person's death. For example, a son or daughter marries several years after the father's decease and enters his (the father's) Occupation on the Marriage Register. Another example, a Will is probated a year after a person's death and the documents state the person's home address. How do LUGgers handle such Events/Facts? Do you create an Occupation or Address Event and leave it undated? Or do you put the date of the Marriage or Probate which is when the "statement was made" about the person's occupation or address? Do you do either of the above and add an Event Note such as "This was stated on his son's Marriage Certificate, 5 years after his decease"? I am contemplating the possibility of having 2 types of Address or Occupation Event. One, the usual "On his Address was ..." or "On he was a ..." and the other something along the lines of "On it was stated that he had been ..." or "On it was stated that his address at the time of his death was ...", with perhaps an explanatory Note. As usual it will be interesting and helpful to see how other LUGgers deal with these situations. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] More thoughts invited on Event Sentences
I don't "design" event sentences if I don't like the standard options. In the "Sentence Overide" tab I put [Notes][Sources], then write whatever I like in the "Notes" tab. RE the date, it depends. If say, the actual date of the event is stated, I use that, then make a note as to where I found it and attach the source. If the source just gives the information I use the date of the source, again with an explanation. Marianne -Original Message- >From: Jenny M Benson >Sent: Aug 17, 2011 11:41 AM >To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com >Subject: [LegacyUG] More thoughts invited on Event Sentences > >I know that is is probably preferable to edit Reports in a wordprocessor >to get the best results and that many people do this. I don't often >have cause to print Reports but I like to have my Event Sentences >designed to produce a reasonably grammatical and sensible output >whenever possible. LUGgers recently assisted me towards the decision to >have separate Events with different wording, including some part of the >EventName in [[privacy brackets]] for Events which can be "done by" or >"done to" an individual. > >Now I am turning my attention to Events - Facts, to be more accurate - >where the "Source" occurs after the person's death. For example, a son >or daughter marries several years after the father's decease and enters >his (the father's) Occupation on the Marriage Register. Another >example, a Will is probated a year after a person's death and the >documents state the person's home address. How do LUGgers handle such >Events/Facts? > >Do you create an Occupation or Address Event and leave it undated? Or >do you put the date of the Marriage or Probate which is when the >"statement was made" about the person's occupation or address? Do you >do either of the above and add an Event Note such as "This was stated on >his son's Marriage Certificate, 5 years after his decease"? > >I am contemplating the possibility of having 2 types of Address or >Occupation Event. One, the usual "On his Address was ..." or "On > he was a ..." and the other something along the lines of "On > it was stated that he had been ..." or "On it was stated >that his address at the time of his death was ...", with perhaps an >explanatory Note. > >As usual it will be interesting and helpful to see how other LUGgers >deal with these situations. >-- >Jenny M Benson > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
[LegacyUG] More thoughts invited on Event Sentences
I know that is is probably preferable to edit Reports in a wordprocessor to get the best results and that many people do this. I don't often have cause to print Reports but I like to have my Event Sentences designed to produce a reasonably grammatical and sensible output whenever possible. LUGgers recently assisted me towards the decision to have separate Events with different wording, including some part of the EventName in [[privacy brackets]] for Events which can be "done by" or "done to" an individual. Now I am turning my attention to Events - Facts, to be more accurate - where the "Source" occurs after the person's death. For example, a son or daughter marries several years after the father's decease and enters his (the father's) Occupation on the Marriage Register. Another example, a Will is probated a year after a person's death and the documents state the person's home address. How do LUGgers handle such Events/Facts? Do you create an Occupation or Address Event and leave it undated? Or do you put the date of the Marriage or Probate which is when the "statement was made" about the person's occupation or address? Do you do either of the above and add an Event Note such as "This was stated on his son's Marriage Certificate, 5 years after his decease"? I am contemplating the possibility of having 2 types of Address or Occupation Event. One, the usual "On his Address was ..." or "On he was a ..." and the other something along the lines of "On it was stated that he had been ..." or "On it was stated that his address at the time of his death was ...", with perhaps an explanatory Note. As usual it will be interesting and helpful to see how other LUGgers deal with these situations. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
