Good answer Cathy. I've wondered for a while if it would be possible
and/or useful (certainly it would be for me) if a dictionary of words/terms
could be provided by experts in Legacy. The whole scenario of Master
Sources, source citations, text, comments etc etc can be bewildering for one
new to the Legacy database concept. If it was maintained in a spreadsheet
it could be added to from time to time by individual users. Certainly the
Help files are there and most useful too, but they often do not declare the
purpose of what they are about, just the how to do it.
That's my 2 bob's worth
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:23 PM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Source Template
Hi Elizabeth,
It does take a while to get your mind around the difference between Master
Source and Source Detail
You can have one Master Source for your Cemetery (to use your example).
When you attach it to events for each person, you add their details in the
Source Detail. The Source Detail only applies to that one use of the
Master Source. (If you attached it to Death and Burial as information
about both was in the cemetery source you could have different detail for
each event. However this isn't advised due to the way Sources print in
Reports. If the source detail is different by as much as a space, it will
print again. If the source detail is identical, then the one Source
Reference number is used, and it prints once. I keep the Source detail
identical for the individual even if I attach that Source to Name, Birth,
Death, Burial.)
Move to the next individual and put their information in the Source
Detail. Same Master Source. Different Source Detail.
Re wanting a Chronological view of all your information - have you
discovered the Chronology Tab? You don't have to enter all this
information again in the Research Notes. Legacy gives you a Chronological
look at events in a person's life. The births and deaths of children and
parents show on this tab. You can control what shows by clicking the
Options button. This is a Deluxe feature. If you don't have Deluxe, seeing
Chronology is so important to you, it would be worth upgrading just for
this.
If you want it available while working elsewhere in the program - just
print a chronology report to pdf and have that open in your PDF reader -
usually Adobe Reader but there are others.
Cathy
At 03:56 AM 10/01/2007, you wrote:
Hello everyone,
I've been reading through some archives and have not
seen any answers to my 'problem' so far.
I hope I can explain this so it is understandable.
I need to find some way of creating Master Sources so
that I am not getting so many!! Up till now I have
been creating a new Master Source for each person, for
each piece of information I have found for that person
but now I realize that it will not work as I continue
to add more people.
So far I have been putting all the 'data' from each
recod, for each person, into the "research" tab
because I want to be able to view "ALL" the
information I have found for that person in
chronological order. I find this very, very handy when
trying to 'continue' that line. This way I have all
their siblings and the parents and locations and ages,
etc. etc. all right there in one place to look at.
I hate having to be opening separate Events tabs, etc.
while I am trying to search for more info on the
internet. This way I don't have to be opening and
closing tabs or clicking on this and that box in order
to try to 'organize' this person's life in my mind. It
enables me to keep this Research tab open and go on
the internet and do more searching and not repeat
searching for info I already have. But I am getting
too many Master Sources.
How would I do this for example....
If I find a web page for a cemetery and it has 8
relatives listed, how would I create one master source
for the cemetery itself but then be able to put each
person's details somewhere so that it shows up only
for them and not the other relatives in that cemetery?
I also want to be able to enter their details into ONE
place so that I can see their life at a glance without
having to click/open other tabs/boxes, as I mentioned
before.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Elizabeth
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