Cliff, Interesting questions. Let me tell a little about my experience.
Firstly, like others, I sure wish we had the SourceWriter when I first started doing sources. We didn't have it, so we did the best we could, and hopefully achieved some degree of consistency. At the very least, entering a source with the general information. So I've got a lot of sources - thousands, which has taken years to research and enter. Since I haven't had the source conversion tool available, I've been getting more acquainted with the SourceWriter simply by recreating my existing sources. There's no way that I'm going to go through my entire master source list, along with all of its citations, to convert them to the new format. Not all at once anyway. Rather, as I'm working on an existing family, I will spend the time to recreate the sources/citations. I can't tell you all how many "new" things I've noticed in my documents by doing it this way. While the documents didn't change, my perspective of them has, and I've noticed that in my original citations, I didn't include everything that was relevant. The SourceWriter has not only helped me enter all of the information correctly, but it has given me a "second chance" to review my documents. Next, when I'm adding in new people, I just use the SourceWriter. No conversion tool necessary. As we developed the SourceWriter templates, we did our best to correctly interpret the models as shown in Elizabeth Mills' Evidence Explained. Some things were difficult to interpret. Many things provide a lot of flexibility and so we tried to incorporate all of this the best we could. Sometimes there are fields that are difficult to understand without understanding more about the source type. For example, what is a Series, or Collection, or Record Group? So to try to help the Legacy user understand what goes in the fields, you'll notice the faint gray text inside the data entry boxes. Also, if you hover your cursor on top of the field label, a yellow tool tip will appear showing the entire example. We've built in "hint" tools that will be developed. In other words, if you have a question about which source type to select, you'll be able to just click on a little question mark button where frequently asked questions about the source type will be answered. This will come with time. Also, while Evidence Explained has hundreds of models, not every model includes an example of how to cite each medium. For example, one of the models in the book might explain how to cite the record on microfilm, but doesn't cover the same source as a database or an online image. Our first release of the SourceWriter contains the templates for most of the models in the book. We will be next working to fill in all of the missing media so every source type has a full range of media from which to choose. Just some of my thoughts.... Thanks, Geoff Rasmussen Millennia Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LegacyFamilyTree.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clifford Andrew Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:03 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Huge Master Source List (was Source titling question) Dear LUG: Well, I for one, would like to use the Source Writer feature of Legacy 7 Deluxe. I think it's an excellent concept and wish it had been available for the past decade that I have been accumulating and documenting sources and references. My questions: 1)Has anyone jumped in and actually converted over all of their old sources to the new system? 2)Were there any problems? 3)How long did it take you to convert? Cliff Andrew www.Geneal.net ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mary Figgins Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:57 AM I agree that I love the idea of the Source Writer and if it had been there from the beginning I might have done things different. However I am a splitter and rarely use the source detail. All the information is placed in the source itself. I might use it on a book with multiple people in it. But that is it. As a result and for consistency, I probably won't be using the Source Writer at this time. It will require more investigation. Maybe convert the sources in a small sample database and see what happens. 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 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
