I've been playing with a way to record family moves from state to state. Fact types Immigration and Emigration do no lend themselves to it. I've tried creating a new fact called Move with a sentence: "[person] moved< [Date]>< from [Place:plain]> to < [PlaceDetails:plain]>" and putting the place departed from in the place field and the place moved to in the place details field. I then share the fact with the family members that also made the move. Has anyone found a more convenient way to handle moves of this sort? Does anyone see a serious problem with using the place details in this manner? Thanks for any advice. Alan

I use residence and residence (family) tags, which focuses on where they lived rather than the action of moving. These are, I believe, default tags. I can then list the years they are there in the date field. On 10/30/2012 5:45 PM, Alan Wood wrote: > I've been playing with a way to record family moves from state to > state. Fact types Immigration and Emigration do no lend themselves to > it. I've tried creating a new fact called Move with a sentence: > "[person] moved< [Date]>< from [Place:plain]> to < > [PlaceDetails:plain]>" and putting the place departed from in the place > field and the place moved to in the place details field. I then share > the fact with the family members that also made the move. > > Has anyone found a more convenient way to handle moves of this sort? > Does anyone see a serious problem with using the place details in this > manner? > > Thanks for any advice. > Alan > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think it makes more sense to use notes and create a timeline. Then you are not restricted to the facts format which often does not convey all the detail you would like. On Oct 30, 2012 5:52 PM, "Alan Wood" <alanbwood@gmail.com> wrote: > I've been playing with a way to record family moves from state to > state. Fact types Immigration and Emigration do no lend themselves to > it. I've tried creating a new fact called Move with a sentence: > "[person] moved< [Date]>< from [Place:plain]> to < > [PlaceDetails:plain]>" and putting the place departed from in the place > field and the place moved to in the place details field. I then share > the fact with the family members that also made the move. > > Has anyone found a more convenient way to handle moves of this sort? > Does anyone see a serious problem with using the place details in this > manner? > > Thanks for any advice. > Alan > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >