Hi Anne,
Is it the Master Source you are unhappy with or the Source Detail?
Master Sources are best "tidied up" through the Master Source List.
There you can identify whether you have two source listings for the
same source and combine them.
You can also edit them to make them more consistent and easier for
other people to understand which source you have used and where to
find it for themselves - or which person holds the Family Bible or
Grandfather's diary etc.
To check Source Detail, I'd tag a Master source or group of Master
Sources and run the Source Report making sure I included the RIN so I
can easily identify the right person and then go in and edit the ones
I wasn't happy with.
I'm not sure what your problem is with the date. Do you have a clash
between the way your computer is set up for dates and your default
date setting in Legacy? Is that somehow messing up the date recorded?
I understand that it's best to use the same order of day, month, and
year for both but can't recall why.
If your problem is just with the Recorded Date - I'd simply ignore
it. It's useful but not crucial to have that.
Yes you can export your file without Sources with a Gedcom export -
but that is a very bad way of cleaning up sources. You'd have to
start over completely. It's much, much, much easier to enter sources
as you enter data than to come back and enter sources later.
Cathy
At 09:01 AM 26/08/2007, you wrote:
Hello
I have my Legacy file and all media stored on my PC with backups to a
separate drive and online as well.
I have now purchased a Laptop and was thinking of transferring all my work
to the laptop and using both the remote drive and on line storage for
backups.
My question is I really want to tidy up my sources - I am very happy with
80% of them but it is the other 20% I want to tidy. My file has 8022 people
with 2549 Master Source entries.
Can I export my Legacy file without the sources? Seems this would be a hard
way to fix the 20%.
Can I export my file without the date recorded in source detail as I have
found that no matter the date I enter, I end up with amazingly obscure dates
in this field.
Sherry has kindly helped me to clean this up twice but it seems to start all
over again (I always enter the date I record without fail by pressing the
"today's date" button)
Is there an easier way to clean up my sources?
Thank you
Anne Wiltshire
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