I have a question related to shared events.

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I have a question related to shared events that arose in a different group's discussion.  I've been using these to share census residence events, baptism godparents, and funeral bereaved. But these, I've been told, are not captured by a Gedcom. I realize the Gedcom format is outdated and not keeping up with the times, but it is the only good way (that I know of) to transfer family files between people and programs.  What is your take on using shared events.  Am I shooting myself in the foot by using them.

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  1. Kelly BoothOctober 16, 2015 at 9:22 AM

    I just commented on your post in the other group.  Whether or not you are shooting yourself in the foot really depends on what your end goals are.  If you upload your tree to Ancestry and want that shared information to show in their timeline, then don’t use it.  If that isn’t important to you, then it won’t matter.  But that being said, keep in mind if 5 years from now a better program comes along & you want to change, then that stuff won’t show on someone’s timeline.
     
    I copy events so that they do show up on everyone’s timelines.  I have my online tree for DNA purposes so want other people to have the full picture. The only share I now use is the informant for a death certificate.  That is the only one that I really don’t care if they are on a timeline but I am even starting to re-think that!

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  2. Lynn DoschOctober 16, 2015 at 8:44 PM

    Thanks Kelly. I'll noodle on that. Sharing an event is just so much easier than having to open each person and create an event and then copy the source (that part is easy using copy/paste).

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  3. michelle kaplanOctober 17, 2015 at 12:48 AM

    Lynn Dosch do you know about the copy & paste clipboards in the Events screen?  If not, open one of your events & over on the right hand side of the screen you'll see buttons down the page called 'Save', 'Cancel', 'Share Event', 'Spell Check',' Word Wrap', 'Zoom', 'Clear', 'Repeat', 'Help'.  Straight under there are 2 little icons.  Mouse over them & 1 says 'Copy Event to Clipboard' & the other one says 'Paste Event from Clipboard'.  You can use these as easy copy & pastes.  I just used one & it even allowed me to change the name of the event after I'd pasted it because the information related to a different event for the other person.  Hope this helps.

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  4. Kelly BoothOctober 17, 2015 at 3:15 AM

    Like Michelle said, just copy and paste - it takes the media with the event and the assigned source.  You can change any part of it that you want to after you paste - it is so much faster!

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  5. Tessa KeoughOctober 17, 2015 at 7:38 AM

    I will weigh in with my comments a little later (early Saturday and have another project) but please feel free to mention the Facebook LUG rather than "the other group." Started this year by Legacy it is an affiliated user group. I say the more the merrier.

    Facebook has lots of genealogists using it and on it often throughout the day. I am not as big a fan of Facebook as I am of Google+ (love the hangouts, hangouts on air, YouTube connection, ability to include images and videos - realize that Facebook has now added some of these), however personally I find too much drama and personal stuff for my taste. That said I do use it for so many of the great groups (Washington genealogy, Swedish genealogy, Legacy LUG to name a few!). We can learn from all types of groups on all types of social media (online and offline).

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  6. Kelly BoothOctober 17, 2015 at 8:32 AM

    Tessa, it wasn't the Legacy group on Facebook but a group for sourcing that the discussion came up in.

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  7. Tessa KeoughOctober 17, 2015 at 11:25 AM

    Okay - that would also be a useful group to know about. I am sure our LVUG members have all kinds of sourcing questions as well. Thanks

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  8. Kelly BoothOctober 17, 2015 at 11:42 AM

    The group is Genealogy - Cite Your Sources.  Sometimes Elizabeth Shown Mills will answer questions so an added benefit!  https://www.facebook.com/groups/Citesources/

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  9. Tessa KeoughOctober 17, 2015 at 11:50 AM

    Thanks Lynn Dosch

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