Instead of saying the program should guide you on how you should enter your information,(I prefer to make my own decisions), why not discover on your on own what works best for you. Then, take screenshots of what you have done. You can save your screenshots and you will have created your own guide of what works best for you. Best of all, you don't have to remember how you entered an event/source. You can refer to your own personal guide at any time.
Regards, Ron Bernier On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:41:26 -0400, "malkajef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Well, I for one have purchased all of Geoff's videos and they are > excellent. I strongly recommend them to all because they reveal all > sorts of capabilities one would not otherwise know about. (As Nick says, > the sources video is not comprehensive enough). However, I do think that, > as I've already written, there has to be more direction - within the > program itself - that guides the user in entering sources. One can always > put data wherever one wishes, but that will mess up both reports and > gedcoms that may be unusable to others using other programs. There needs > to be a standardized way of entering data that follows genealogical best > practices. > > The 'one size fits all' source system that essentially leaves it to the > user to fit the sources wherever he can or wishes is less than ideal. > Which is a shame because this is an excellent program otherwise. Maybe > we need to wait for version 7? On the other hand since Legacy is based on > MS Access, maybe it is just too complicated to create multiple source > types within Access tables, which may be is why only one set of fields > were chosen. I do not know. > > I am almost ready to reluctantly give up on Legacy. > > Jeff > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nicholas Cirillo > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:17 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Entering source details > > > I feel I need to weigh in here. I suspect 40% of the entries on this > list are, in one way or another, related to recording sources. As a > relatively new genealogist, I picked up Legacy on recommendations. I > did not know the importance of formatting sources and how there were > standards to meet should one want to publish, etc. The software itself > was mostly silent as to the "correct" way to cite sources. You needed > to buy a CD to get a tutorial on sourcing, and, with apologies to > Goeff, this was inadequate to the task. > I love Legacy. I would not give it up for almost anything. However, > having to analyze each entry on the Individual Report to hopefully get > it close to "standard" is at least annoying. I feel this can be > programmed in a way that the information is easy, and intuitive, to > enter and meets the standards for further publication of the work. > Nick Cirillo > Fairfax VA > > malkajef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Liz > > Yes, although I am very experienced at genealogy, I > <snipped> > 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 > > > > 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 > 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
