This is sent to the wrong Tim. I do believe you want Tim Willis. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cathy Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:05 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] An argument for splitting? (knowing I may get "lumps" for this)
Hi Tim, Currently it is extremely difficult to edit Source Citation details unless you can search and replace on a particular section. You can't easily add a File ID to the Source Detail or a picture etc. You can't even get a list of people using that particular source detail - only a list of those using the Master Source, and by tagging it and using the Source Report, a printout of what is actually attached to each person. That is the only advantage I can see to being a Source Splitter. I'm not sure whether this will change with the revamp of sources in Legacy 7. There's great advantage in filling in all the relevant sections in the source detail when you first attach the source. Cheers, Cathy At 07:07 AM 20/09/2007, you wrote: >I have been toying around with one file system or another, and I am >thinking of using the File ID under Citation to identify the >location of a copy of a source (say something like.. 'File 123 >Located in MRIN file 456', or MRIN456-123..something like that) and >have it available for reports. Say this citation already exists in >different places in your database, but nothing currently appears in >the File ID. And you want to add the location to each citation that >you know uses this source (which could cover many different >people).. If you are a lumper, say the source is a Family Bible, >and the citation is someone's obituary pasted to a page that you >copied and filed with the "obituare" (the person who the obituary is about). > >It seems that if you are a splitter, The obituary in the family >bible is all one source, so, you could easily add the location to >the File ID on the source record, and when you click save, you have >the option to save it where ever that source exists.. but if you are >a lumper, it seems you can not do this with citations as they are >linked to a specific event/individual.. > >Am I missing something here, or is there an easy way to add/detract >from citations without having to find each place they exist? I see >an option for find/replace that could include citation File ID, but >it doesn't seem complex enough to add something like this. I >suppose you could tag every one using the source, but in the case of >the family bible, you would have many hits (47 in my case). Then >you would have to weed through which ones are mentioned in the obituary... > >Any suggestions? > >Lumping along with a splitting headache, > >Tim Willis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
