Patti - please don't give up on Legacy! I need you in here working wth me as an APG member, a Legacy user, and a TNG web site designer!
I really think the sourcewriter is going to work out well and I'm so glad that Geoff and the programmers are working on the export issue. Geoff, I truly believe that this program could also win over many in the professional genealogy community if/when we can get the export working smoothly. That would be a great product endorsement! I can just see the Eastman BLOG write-up now... No other known genealogy database product out there can currently offer EE-style citations that can be exported to the web unless they are done manually (at least none that anyone could come up with on the APG List). Plus the Legacy templates really help with input standardization and ease of use. Elizabeth's book (in spite of its thorough coverage of topics) isn't nearly as easy to understand as the Legacy templates are. I find that I first select the Legacy template and then just look up the EE book page to make sure the output is how it needs to be. Since I'm now homeschooling my two kids, my genealogy time is much more limited than in the st. Therefore, I'm just planning to wait patiently and hope for this gedcom export solution to come sooner or later. Geoff, I remain very interested in this enhancement and would be more than happy to test out exported citations offline as the need arises. Thanks for the update and if anyone has or knows family with school-aged kids, check out my eductional links page (all free resources) on my genealogy website: http://www.roots2buds.net/educationalbookmarks.htm. Enjoy! Gail Rich Nestor Smyrna, Georgia www.roots2buds.net On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Geoff Rasmussen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are also working on a special "web" export which will format your > citations so they work perfectly with GEDCOM-submission sites such as TNG. > > Thanks, > > Geoff Rasmussen > Millennia Corporation > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.LegacyFamilyTree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/> > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patti > Hobbs > Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:31 AM > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Source Citations Free Form > > Yes, thanks, Janis; helps perfectly. I'll have to see how it exports > to TNG now. I thought I had seen that somewhere in Legacy, but I've > just not been spending much time lately with the citations in it. > > Patti > On Sep 16, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Janis L Gilmore wrote: > > > Patti, I have used the SourceWriter override boxes for some sources > > that I > > felt just weren't shaping up as I liked - particularly in one case > > when the > > source was so compound in nature that it really required more than I > > could > > squeeze out of the SourceWriter. You can use out the SourceWriter, > > as usual, > > to the best of your ability, and then completely rewrite the output, > > if you > > like. > > > > To me this is preferable because it also allows an override for the > > subsequent citation, and bibliography etc. So you can catch all > > three at the > > same time. This is in the source detail rather than the master > > source, if > > that bothers you. > > > > Did that make sense? > > > > Janis > > > > > > On 9/16/08 8:54 AM, "Patti Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Some other programs provide options for just writing out one's own > >> citation in a "free-form" box rather than using the individual entry > >> pieces that I see in Legacy. Is there a way to bypass the normal > >> source citation forms and just write it yourself? > >> > >> Patti > >> > >> > >> > >> Legacy User Group guidelines: > >> > >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > >> To unsubscribe: > >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > > To unsubscribe: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<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
