On 10/23/06, Nancy Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, excellent ideas from ronald & wendy! It looks like a master source
will be the ticket. Though an "real" address book would be nice in
Legacy, don't you think? ;-)
nancy
Wendy Howard wrote:
> Hi Nancy,
>
>> Is there an address book where you can add information? I rec'd an
>> email from a person who gave me valuable information about one of my
>> ancestors but she isn't in anyway related to "the family".
>
>
> This sounds like the sort of situation where I use a Master Source
> called "Private Correspondence", where I put information about the
> type of correspondence, the person and the date in the detail. For
> example:
>
> email from John Bright, 03 Aug 2006
>
> Any email referred to in my sources is copied to a folder called
> "correspondence" on my computer. Any time I see a source in my data
> like the one above, I know I'll find a copy of the email in that folder.
>
> When I'm saving a copy of the email, I name it so it can be found
> easily based on the information I recorded in the Source Detail; the
> one above would be called "2006-08-03 from John Bright" Starting with
> the year, then month, then day, ensures that the individual emails are
> sorted in date order when I view the folder, regardless of when I
> actually got around to saving it.
>
> Hope this helps. :-)
>
> Kind Regards,
> Wendy Howard
> Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/
>
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