Hi Joi,
Welcome and it's great to see that you're
thinking about how to be consistent before you get too far.
Re Events. The major events (birth, death,
baptism and burial) are treated separately on the
Individual Information screen. Anything else can
be added as an Event or Fact. Note that the
heading is Event/Fact. You can choose for a
particular Event/Fact type whether or not it has
a date field or a location field if that helps.
Yes I add a Death Certificate as a Source to any
bit of information that I have learnt or had
backed up from it - so for the date and place of
death itself, then the name, the parents names etc
The Source Clipboard is a good way of doing this.
That way you type the source with source detail
once and then can add it multiple times.
The File ID in the source is there for your
benefit. What you put in there depends on how you
file your pieces of paper. Some people file by
family and use the MRIN as you suggest. I file by
type so the Death Certificate would have a File ID like "Death 021."
Legacy can help you see what the next number in
the sequence would be but it can't fill this
field automatically as it depends on your filing system.
Cathy
At 01:09 PM 16/05/2008, you wrote:
I have viewed all of the training videos
and as
new user of this program, I really want to start
off on the right foot
and avoid re-doing
something I messed up after I have entered 1000
relatives. I also dont want to reinvent the
wheel if Legacy has provided the tools and I
just cant figure out how to use it effectively.
So, heres the question
if I have a source
document that provides information for many
things such as a death certificate which gives
the DOD, COD, place of death, parents names,
etc I have one Event in Legacy -- the death,
right? (Still a bit confused as to what should
and should not be listed as an event)
But, that aside, for all the other pieces of
information gleaned from this single document
the death certificate is cited in the various
places COD, DOD, Cemetery, etc.so far so good?
Now, what do I do in the File ID box? Is that
something to turn on somewhere with a tick
box so an ID is automatically generated? Is that the MRIN? The RIN?
If I were to create the File ID using the MRIN
(or RIN), should I tack on an additional number
or letter to identify the specific document
attached to that family or individual? So, the
Death Certificate might be MRIN 00012-2,
representing couple 12 with only 2 documents in their file. Does this work?
What kind of problems could this create in the
future for reports, retrieving documents, etc.
Thanks for your help--many of the posts here
have already answered so many questions.
Joi Soucy
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