Some other sourcing and data problems: How do you handle these:
1) E.g., for birth info, you get the place from one source, the year from another, the exact date from another, yet Legacy doe not make it clear as to which source goes with which data. I can of course add it in the detail, but I wish that could be done automatically-- i.e., with superscript numerals. I suppose that would get way too complicated. 2) You get back 6 generations and have two different sets of parents for the same individual -- picked up from someone else's research and no sources for either. How do you enter the info when you have no idea which is correct -- if either? 3) Where a person dies is not usually so important as where he was living at the time of his death, and just because he was living in County X doesn't mean that he died in County X. How do you handle that kind of info? 4) You know where he was buried,but you don't know where he died. Yet burial info doesn't show e.g., on a pedigree report. 5) Since his parents lived their entire lives in County X, it's reasonable to assume he was born there, but his mother could have gone to visit her mother in County Y for the delivery. How do you handle info that is PROBABLY true but you don't really have any way of KNOWING? It's disconcerting not to have ANY idea where someone was living. 6) For your research Notes you've used 5 different sources, yet the research sources just lump them all together. (In the research notes I always give the source and date I am entering the info, then give the info itself, and separate each batch of info with a string of plus signs before entering something from a different source. But this won't make very smooth reading. I don't suppose there's anyway of attaching a WordPerfect or even .pdf document with standard documentation in lieu of the Research notes. I suppose one could create and paste in a Word/WordPerfect document, use numbers in parentheses instead of superscript numerals and have the sources/endnotes at the end and then also enter the sources separately in the usual way so they'll show up in a bibliography/Master Source List. Does anyone have another way of handling this matter? I'll appreciate ideas/practices on any of these! Pat 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/[email protected]/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
