Legacy - Adding events

With grateful thanks to Macbev who taught me about the repeat button

It is tempting at first just to add information about a person in the note field, but this soon becomes unwieldy, it is far better to use “Events”

For example, you may have found a family on a census and you want to enter the details for say the husband, wife and a couple of children.

• Start off by opening up the card for the husband and click on add event.

• Record your event (i.e. 1861 census) on the top line.

• The second line is Description, this is where I put the RG or HO source number.

• The next line is date; some people put the census day here.

• The next line is place; I put the full address here.

• In the notes box, I write a nice description, such as “The family consists of Fred Bloggs age 32, Ag lab, wife Mary….. etc.

• When it is all filled in, click on save.

To add the same details for the wife:

• open up her card

• click on add event, so the blank event card opens. If you look down the right hand side, you will see “Repeat”.

• click on that and your title appears in the top line.

• Click repeat again and the description line fills in; continue clicking and everything including the notes appears.

• Just close and do the same again for each of the children. It is very quick to enter the event for a whole family, no matter how many children there are.

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