Your example shows the problems of comparing programs without having the full program or even without having experiece with a particular program function. Legacy does have a timeline called Chronology, it does include births of children, and it does have a good number of options as to what is included including some color coding. Unlike RM, the editing and entries cannot be done from the timeline at this time. Barbara S. (Yes, Doug; this list does seem to have many Barbaras.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Levergood via" <tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com> To: <tmg-refugees@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2014 6:07 PM Subject: [TMG-REFUGEES] an important functionality for me > Just to get the ball rolling, here is an example of a very basic but > important functionality for me, the reason that it is important to me, > and the features that do or do not incorporate or enable that > functionality in TMG, RM, Legacy, and FH. Of course, since I am just > learning RM, Legacy, and FH, it could well be that my information is > incomplete. > > Here is where the collaboration comes in... If you have more, better, or > corrected information about this functionality, please post it so that > we can all benefit. Or do a similar analysis of a functionality that is > important to you and share it with us. > > Barbara L. > > ++ > > Functionality: Display of all events in person’s life in a single list, > ordered chronologically, including marriage and birth of children > > Important to me to assess timing of events or make hypotheses about > where records for an event might be located. > > TMG, v. 9.x > • Person view. Includes marriage and birth of children. > > RootsMagic, full v. 6.3.1.4 > • Edit person. Includes person’s marriage but not birth of children. > I haven’t found a way to configure which events are included in this view. > • Search/Person List=RootsMagic Explorer, linked to Individual View. > Individual View includes marriage, but not birth of children. > • Timeline. But that also includes birth, marriage, etc. of siblings. > I haven’t found a way to configure which events are included in this view. > > Legacy, trial v. 8.0.0.439 > • Individual’s information. But marriage and birth of children are > not included. > • Name list/events. But marriage and birth of children are not > included. > • Name list/detail. Can customize, but only up to 8 events can be viewed > at once. > > Family Historian, trial v. 5.0 > • Individual/facts. Includes all(?) events, including marriage and > birth of children. I haven’t found a way to configure which events are > included in this view. > > ++ > > > -- > > Barbara Levergood > levergood@att.net > > *** > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the message subject and body. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-REFUGEES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message