There is a built in "Fact Type" called "Living" that may give the results that you seek. Or it would be possible to create a fact called "Removed" if "Living" does not produce the desired results. Further expansion of either fact type could be done by using the associated note field. FL Rose ----- Original Message ----- From: "bjorkman" <bjorkman@epix.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:31 AM Subject: [FO] Non-Standard Fact Titles > I'm looking for suggestions for the name of Fact titles to cover the > following situations: > > A) > My father and grandparents emigrated from Sweden in 1907. I recorded this > event by > entering the date and place of emigration from Sweden under the fact > "Emigration". > Their arrival date to New York is recorded under the fact "Immigration". > > My grandmother was very homesick and she and my father returned to Sweden > in 1911 > and returned to America the following year, 1912. It seems inappropriate to > reuse the > facts Emigration and Immigration to record this event, but what should the > event be > called? "Return to America" or ??? > > My reluctance to reuse Emigration and Immigration is based on my dictionary > definition > of immigration, " to come to a new country or region or environment, esp. > to settle there". > Since they already settled here and my grandfather stayed here during their > absence > maintaining the household, then it would seem that they didn't emigrate or > immigrate > on their second voyage to America.. But what do you call this event? > > B) > Another family relation immigrated in 1836 to NYC at the age of two with > his parents. > In 1852 he sailed from New York to Panama, crossed the isthmus and then > sailed up > Pacific to San Francisco. What is the best title to document this event? > Migration ? > > I'm open to all suggestions. These are not critical points, but interesting > bits of family history > which presently lie in paper form in folders, unrecorded in my database. > I'd like to share this > information cousins. It would far easier to combine it with all the other > standard facts so > easily recorded in FO, so it would be delivered in one package. I realize > that I could probably > alter a "Book Report" to add this info, but being a one finger typist, I'm > looking for an easier > way out. > > Bob Bjorkman > Carlisle, PA. > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > The "Family Origins® Wish List" http://formalsoft.com/wishlist.htm > ??? FAQ ??? -- http://www.graabek.com/fow/fofaq.html > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >

Hi, I used Re-immigration for the second time they came to America. Clare