Thanks Ward, and I just sent a note stating the versatility of the program, which you gave examples of. Rich in LA CA
----- Original Message ---- From: "wnkwal...@rogers.com" <wnkwal...@rogers.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 12:42:35 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Notes and Source Details Welcome, Rick. I think the key is to be thinking about the potential reports that you will generate from the family file, not just about what you, the user of Legacy, will see when browsing the family file. Info in event notes will be printed on various types of reports (unless that option is de-selected on the report settings). Source detail text is there as a backup for you and any researchers that have access to your digital data. True, you can choose to display source detail text with the source citation on reports (footnotes, etc.), but that is not the default. Specifically for censuses, there have been discussions about this on the LUG. Some people even put census details in both places, plus images of the document. My preference is to ensure that the source details capture everything that is relevant and in a reasonably verbatum manner, with any interpretations only in the Comments field. Then in the event notes I put a more condensed, readable summary of the event, ever sensitive to the impatient reader of a wordy report. (This applies to events like a census event. I wouldn't normally add any census-related notes to a birth event, for example, when citing the census as a source for the birth.) Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: 1eagle...@bellsouth.net To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:45 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Notes and Source Details I am new to Legacy and its notes and sources. So I have been watching the training videos. In entering Sources, Geoff created a Master Source for a birth date and then added text to the Source Details (transcribed from the book). Then attached the source to to birth date. Then in adding an event, a census, Goeff went to the Master Source Clipboard and created a Master Source, but did not transcribe any text in to the source detail. Then added the event, the Census. Then he transcribed the census info into the notes of the Event, and attached the Source. So this source has the notes in the event section and not in the Source Details. Although it can can be added there as well. So the question is, is there a reason to put the transcribed the text of your findings into the Source Details and not the notes in one case. And then in another event put the text in the notes and not in the Sources Details. Or should it be in both? Or does it even mater? Rick Merrill Athens AL The new guy on the block who is trying to learn Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@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 after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
