Richard: Is there any way your "nice person" can trace back to the source of these obits? Like maybe they all come from one or a small number of newspapers? The date of death should be in the text of the obit, so that gives a small number of possible publish dates. If the year isn't in the text, you probably have the year of death anyway.
You could also let her know that you are now entering the obits into your gnealogy program, and so could use the name and date (and maybe page) of the newspaper . . . Jennie --- Richard Heckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi LUG'ies! > > Just curious--where do most of you enter the actual > text of an obituary? > > Should the obituary text be entered under a person's > Events, cite the Source, then in the Source Details > window, do most of you enter the obit under the Text > tab? > > Further, I have this nice person in my family who > sends me tons of obituaries (what a blessing!)of > family members, many of whom I am unfamiliar. It's > great to get the obits, but she doesn't include any > of the source infomation: eg. newspaper name, > published date, page, column. > > How would you enter this obituary information? > Create an "Unknown" source, or create an > "Obituary-on-File" source, then enter the obit in > the Source Details window? > > Just wanna know what most of you do in these > situations. > > Thanks for the input! > > Richard Heckman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable > archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > > For online technical support, please visit > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
