Michael,
I agree with both of Jenny's posts and would like to point out a couple more
things.
What you see 'at a glance' while running Legacy is not the only
consideration. If you want to send a report (that includes events) to a
relative about some part of the family, I think that your approach would
look rather bloated with details. I find that relatives with a casual
interest have little patient for plowing through long reports. To me, the
event details should concisely summarize the gist of the event (unless
telling a good story). Then the report can (optionally) contain footnotes or
endnotes which describe the sources. The interested reader can follow up
with you if they really care about exactly which facts were in a particular
source. Within Legacy, you can see the answer to such questions with very
few clicks, especially by using methods such as Jenny suggested.
A picture of a source document is usually only of interest to the
researcher(s) as a backup to the textual source information. If it is a
special document of general interest, then you could add it to an event, but
it usually won't display at a readable scale in reports.
For conflicting evidence that calls into question a fact that appears in a
report (or on the main Family view), I suggest bringing that up front by
adding a note -- either in the Research Notes for the individual, the
Marriage Notes, or an event note. For example, a research note could state
something like "the various censuses disagree on Jane Doe's place of birth,
some placing it in NY, PA, or OH". In the actual birth place field, you
could leave it blank or you could put the location that you sense is most
likely. (I agree that if you choose to create a residence event for every
census, then this would be redundant for the _careful_ reader.)
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jenny M Benson" <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:26 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing
michael barberi wrote
I find the source field very limiting. You can put in the source and some
details. However, if you have multiple sources, some conflicting evidence,
information that you believe you correctly analyzed and have reached a
solid conclusion about, the Events/Facts is easier to use.
You can always use the Comment field in Source Details to give as much
information about the Source as you wish and to specify which particular
"part" of the Event that Source relates to. I often put something like
"relates to place of Birth only" in the Comment field.
However, I am now somewhat at a loss as to the reason for your original
post. You asked "Should I be using the Master Source or New Source
capability to document all information such as birth, marriage, death,
regardless if I have the actual record or not?" and a couple of us have
replied "yes, you should" but you now seem to be saying you are
determined to carry on using Events!
Well, that's fine - you can carry on using Legacy any way you wish, many
of us have lots of different ways of adapting the software to our own
needs/preferences, but it does appear to mean we have rather wasted our
time trying to answer your question.
--
Jenny M Benson
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