Hello everyone. I have a question about the use of obituaries. Would
you ever use an obituary as an event, or would it always be a source to
events? I have a friend who wants to put information contained on
obituaries on our website, but it seems to me that historical notes,
citing the
Just my personal process - I would treat an obituary like I do a census
because of the information included in it. I create an event and add all of
the details from it, i.e., I would transcribe the entire obituary. Then I
would use the copy/paste event feature to add it to everyone else it
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Subject: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
Hello everyone. I have a question about the use of obituaries. Would
you ever use an obituary as an event, or would it always be a source to
events? I have a friend who wants to put information contained on
obituaries on our website, but it seems
Kathy,
I think the 'Death' to be the 'Event', not the Obit. I'm thinking that
is what you may have thought ? I include the Obit with the 'Death
Event', as well as the funeral programs, mortuary...
Criticism welcome,
Tim R.
On 2/21/2011 11:38 AM, Kathy Meyer wrote:
Just my personal process - I
, 2011 10:29 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
Hello everyone. I have a question about the use of obituaries. Would
you ever use an obituary as an event, or would it always be a source to
events? I have a friend who wants to put information contained
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:32:50 -0700, Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com
wrote:
I think the 'Death' to be the 'Event', not the Obit. I'm thinking that
is what you may have thought ? I include the Obit with the 'Death
Event', as well as the funeral programs, mortuary...
Criticism welcome
My only
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From: Kathy Meyer kmeyer2...@gmail.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
Just my personal process - I would treat an obituary like I do a census
because of the information included in it. I
] Obituary as Event?
Just my personal process - I would treat an obituary like I do a census
because of the information included in it. I create an event and add all of
the details from it, i.e., I would transcribe the entire obituary. Then I
would use the copy/paste event feature to add
I think that if you look at events as really Event/Fact as they are labelled,
you can see that an obituary can be a fact. I have an Obituary fact, as well
as a Newspaper Article fact. Full text is transcribed with the source being
the newspaper from which it was published. Then I use the
On 21/02/2011 19:55, M. Brenzel wrote:
I think that if you look at events as really Event/Fact as they are
labelled, you can see that an obituary can be a fact. I have an
Obituary fact, as well as a Newspaper Article fact. Full text is
transcribed with the source being the newspaper from
: Jerry [mailto:jerrysemailgro...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 1:29 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
Hello everyone. I have a question about the use of obituaries. Would
you ever use an obituary as an event, or would it always be a source
Jerry
I suppose 'everything' could be considered an Event/Fact and handled
as such. But I agree with Ron and Dennis, obituaries and the like,
including census results in my world, do not fit into my Events/Facts
as a matter of normal processing. The information they contain is
used to identify
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
I used to use obituaries and census as events, but realized what a waste it
was since they are used as sources anyway. I guess it's up to each person
so I am not dictating whether to use it or not. To me it's just more work
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Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
I used to use obituaries and census as events, but realized what a waste it was
since they are used as sources anyway. I guess it's up to each person so I am
not dictating whether to use it or not. To me it's just more work especially
after
: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Date: Monday, February 21, 2011, 4:08 PM
Jerry
I suppose 'everything' could be considered an Event/Fact and handled
as such. But I agree with Ron and Dennis, obituaries and the like,
including census results in my world, do
have remained silent on
that topic. His inexperience was showing that day.
---
Bill Boswell
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From: BG Johnson [mailto:b...@brmemc.net]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 5:04 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
Bill,
I
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:07:50 -0500, William Boswell
whbosw...@gmail.com wrote:
Would that be an indication that we should be adding obituaries as an event?
Do what makes sense for you.
--
Dennis Kowallek (LTools)
http://zippersoftware.com/ltools/index.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools
Bill asked:
I never noticed there being an obituary event in Legacy. Would that be an
indication that we should be adding obituaries as an event?
No, I think it is an indication that Legacy is a very flexible program,
and there are choices one can make about how to utilise it. Discussions
[mailto:kayhawo...@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 6:02 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
The census event allows me to see in family reports exactly where people
were at a given time. It's kind of a location at a glance by year deal
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary as Event?
For sources, I keep all the text for family members together and just repeat
it for each person. I used to split up each line from that family and only
include that in the individuals source detail, but I found it to be
problematic later because I never got
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