Hi Diane,
As you've already seen, there is more than one way to achieve the
desired result. No one method is "it", each has its own merits and
problems and you will need to consider how they fit with you and make
your own decisions.
My method is to have the working copy on my desktop computer, and a
reference copy on the laptop. I *only* alter the data on the
desktop/working copy (bar one exception, see below), and when I'm about
to head out somewhere I transfer a fresh up-to-date copy to the desktop
via the network we have running in the house. A flash drive would also
do nicely if the network wasn't there.
When I'm out and about doing research, I record my findings in a
separate document (OpenOffice, as it happens), which I then copy to my
desktop when I get home and enter the data into Legacy on the desktop,
too. The only time I alter the Legacy data on the laptop/reference copy
is when I'm working through the ToDo list, in which case I close items
that I've done as I work so I can see what is left to attend to. Of
course, the items on the desktop/working copy will need to be altered
later on as well, so this is a duplication, but I can live with that; on
the reference copy all I do is mark an item "Closed", on the working
copy I'll also enter details about what the research found.
Hope this helps. :-)
Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/
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