Hm, I have the Alt Name event too, and I don't think I created it
I use Alt Name for misspellings and variations of the name - I create one
each time I see one in the source. I use AKA for other names that are
different, for the same person. For instance, I have someone that changed
his name
I have it setup like that Right-Click Where it has the labels for the
fields being viewed on Family View, and it brings up a "Customize Display"
window, where you can select what information you want to see - Select "Age
at Death". Note that it doesn't show an age if the person is alive...
User ID's are for exactly what you want - ID numbers assigned by the
User (you) for whatever reason you may want them. That is where I
would put them.
AFN is Ancestral File Number - so you can identify tha you have found
that person in the Ancestral File (which will eventually be not so
useful.)
Here is what I do... (and yes, I mention every source...)
So, with the four census, where I am calculating his birth, for the birth
information I would have
Birth Field -> Cal 1825 - with the 4 sources. (I don't use the date range
the census was taken, as I assume some rounding, etc anyway
I also have 1st cousins that married (and they had the same last name before
marriage too, just to add to the confusion people get.)
I don't think Legacy really does anything to point this out especially
when you aren't aware of it. You would most likely find out about it by
looking for possi
You can add them to the couple as children, and go into Child
Settings, and under Relationship to Father (or Mother), select Step.
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:58 PM, RICHARD SCHULTHIES
wrote:
>
> Yes and no. You have to add them as belonging to the same couple as the other
> children have. This is
Not sure with the integration with Legacy - but I'm pretty sure that the
Gedcom I uploaded to it included the sources that I said to put in the
Gedcom
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kirsten Bowman wrote:
> Thanks, Heather. So it sounds like if you have a source attached to a
> particular
You can post souces on newFamilySearch - but they are not required.
It has been doing a good job of consolidating information from various LDS
sources (a HUGE process of course) as well as anything people submit or put
up but it is an interesting process because there may be a few people
worki
Oh, that sounds perfect! Thanks, I really appreciate knowing that it is a
pick-and-choose type thing!
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Bruce Jones wrote:
> Heather,
> I attended the presentation by Luc (Legacy developer of the interface)
> at the BYU Computerized Family History and Genealogy C
Ok, I have to admit that I haven't upgraded my Legacy for a few months (and
haven't been doing a lot of genealogy as I expect to have another entry to
make in my immediate family in a couple of months. )
However, my not upgrading is VERY unusual for me, as I am generally right
up-to-date, and even
I have used both too basically you need to keep your Clooz database
seperate from you Legacy one, even though there was a period where it was
the same database. Unfortunately, this means entering a lot of information
twice.
I would LOVE the type of document management that Clooz has as well a
Just wanted to add a bit more information on the LDS records.
1. Ancestral File - as noted below - submitted by researchers - a repository
of family trees. Some are very good, some are totally horrible.
2. IGI - as noted below - from 2 sources - submitted by researchers, and
extracted from recor
I use CAL for any date that I have calculated, including from census
information.
I use EST for any date that I am estimating from cultural "norms" (ie, wife
is usually 2 years younger than her husband... or has a first child around
age 21 it is a wild guess with little info - but this estima
Add the child as an unlinked person. Then bring that child on the Family
View as the main person. Right-click them and select Add-Father. Select
the father that you already have. I believe that will give you a new
marriage of the Father to an unknown person, with the child as their child.
On T
I would probably do the same thing - putting them in the same file...
That said, if you do choose to have them in another file, it isn't a big
deal to move them once you have the connection. For just a couple of
people, I would open the 2 files on split-screen, and drag-and-drop the
people from t
I think it was mentioned the other time - some cultures didn't name their
children until they were 1 year old, because of the high infant mortality
rate.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
> Eventually the parents named him Albert Marion Sanders and his name appears
> as s
I reported it - can't say if it is on their fix-it list or not though... lol
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Rita Lynn McKale wrote:
> Thanks Heather,
> That is exactly what I was trying to say. I don't know if they share a
> father or not so I think I will leave it the way it is, now that
There is an existing problem that Show 1/2 kids does not show them all if
there is more than one unknown spouse - I actually do have an ancestor that
had kids from 2 different unknown men. (Well, I'm assuming they were
different - she had ill. kids before she married, and ill. kids after her
husba
If I understand your question correctly - you have a marriage of 2 people,
but the have different possible surnames for the wife - but you are certain
it is the same person and are 100% sure that it isn't a case of a man
marrying 2 different women with the same first name and you don't know
whi
>From the responses - you can see that it is your choice, and people do
different things
I do different things for the various examples For most I have my
"research" databases, with info I have gotten but haven't been able to
verify at all - especially stuff from online Tree's or gedcoms.
That said, I do "keep" multiple databases. I have one "proven" database -
in which I have people that their relationship to me has been "proven" (not
necessarily to a huge standard - to be in that database I only would want 1
fairly good source - so proven might be the wrong word)But I k
And RIN's and MRIN's were visible in 1988 in PAF 2.0 - so Legacy isn't the
first to make them available. (and Legacy uses seperate keys in the
tables...)
That said - I still don't use them.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Jim Walton wrote:
> RIN, MRIN, Database Key, whatever you want to call t
I don't use RINs or MRINS for any organizational method because I have lots
RIN's in the past. I'm not saying that you would lose them in Legacy - but
I have been doing computer genealogy since 1988 (I started with PAF v 2.0)
and although I very rarely change genealogy program, I have on occasio
Well on this one - if you are sure they are siblings (which I have had) -
then you know there is a Father. In most cases you even know what his last
name is likely to be, so I don't see why it is a big deal to create the
father.
For instance, if you have Brother and Sister - John Brown and Jane
THANKS! I didn't know that existed, and have worried that I had pictures in
my genealogy folders that I had missed attaching!
> We already have that!
>
> In Picture Centre the upper central section shows a list of all the
> files in a selected folder and if their is a + in the U column it means
You need for these cases to make a "marriage" for the couple that were not
married, but had kids together. On the marriage screen for them, you check
mark "This couple never married" - there are places to setup the wording for
reports and stuff.
So for your father, you put in your sister's mother
The main problem I found with the Dollarhide system (which I used years ago
for a while) - is that if you discover a child you didn't know about that
changes the numbers of other people you have already entered. Also, the
numbers can get pretty long, although the longer the number, the less
relate
Mother rel and Father rel are where you assign sources showing that the
person is related to their Mother or Father. So for instance, if a will
for John Brown says "and to my son Jonathon Brown I leave the house."
then I would source the will in Jonathon Brown's records for Father Rel.
The M
I assign my Census sources to each piece of "data" that i get out of it.
Say in the Census, I find this info
Name: John Brown
Sex: Male
Age: 50
Marital Status: Single
(etc.)
I would make up my source record and copy it to the source clipboard (and I
would include that info to it.)I wou
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