Hi Jeff,
You are asking for an oft requested feature. It is on the Enhancement
request list but this doesn't mean it will be added. It simply means
it will be considered.
Currently you can Source General Notes (indicated as just Notes on
the Assigned Sources Screen) , Research Notes, Medical Notes and
Marriage Notes. However, unless you add within the Notes a short
title to your source, you cannot show which section of notes relates
to which source. So adding a short source reference within the notes
is the current work around.
All other notes are sourced as part of the event to which they belong.
Another work around is to put such things in Events. This can help
with forming a chronology of someone's travels, for example. The
drawback is that you don't get a good narrative.
If you collect like happenings in the one event, you can do something
about the narrative flow - but you're back to the same problem of not
being able to source individual bits of your note - and you've lost
the useful additions to the Chronology view/report.
You are giving Legacy a work out :-) It's good to have another
thoughtful user on board.
Cathy
At 09:58 AM 11/09/2006, you wrote:
In the Notes section, I often have a variety of information entered
and not everything can be classified into one of the traditional
source categories like 'arrival', 'birth', 'death', etc. For
instance there may text saying
a) 'went to xyz in 1856'
b) 'also went to abc in 1859'
c) etc.
(a) may be from source 'source 1', (b) was from a different source,
'source 2', etc. If was writing this in an academic article or
book, I would reference the various parts of that text with
footnotes like this:
....'went to xyz in 1856 (footnote 1)'..., 'also went to abc in 1859
(footnote 2)'..., etc (footnote 3).
(Footnotes)
1. source 1
2. source 2
3. source 3
How would one reference source the various different but similar
note items for the same person in Legacy? Any possibility of having
something like "source footnotes" in the notes fields, or is that
asking too much <grin>? I believe accurate recording of sources is
essential for good genealogy.
Jeff
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