Chris: Presumably these are digital items you're talking about rather than hardcopies. If so, I have a totally low-tech way of handling them that works very well for my database of roughly 10,000--including a limited one-name study. I dislike having unattached individuals in my database, so their records go into Stray folders under MyDocuments. These are organized by surname and some are grouped into subfolders by given name or geographical area. Periodically I go through the stray folders to see if anything "clicks" or if I can find new information about an individual. Most of my strays are in their own designated folders, which also includes a Word document where I copy/paste discussions with others about this person or add notes about where (s)he might belong, where I've already checked, etc. When a connection is finally made it's easy to transfer the pertinent information into Legacy.
Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Chris CG [mailto:914ch...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:26 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Documents, documents, documents Maybe this will clarify my original question: When I have a "new" document, photo, newspaper obituary, or anything else I find that might relate to my "family", I first enter and transcribe it into ByGones and/or Clooz and then cut/paste relevant information into Legacy to create a master source which will be assigned to people in my Legacy database. My main purpose for using the additional programs is to record and track things that point to people I can't identify - witnesses to events, individuals or families with the same last name and in the same geographical area as known ancestors, or other snippets of information. As I keep entering information from more and more sources, some of those unidentified people start to appear more than once and previously unknown relationships and patterns emerge. This in turn leads to some "Voila!" moments including brick-wall breakthroughs. Things like "so that's who grandpa used to talk about" or "Gerry and Jeremiah are actually the same person" or "I need to find out more about so-and-so who has been present at these four family weddings". What I want to do now is move all of this research and analysis into Legacy to take advantage of all the additional information recorded there, and discontinue the duplication of efforts required to maintain the additional databases. I am hoping to get some guidance, ideas and practical advice from others who are already better at this than I am. Since everyone using Legacy has to manage this same kind of information and documentation, I am frustrated that the Legacy help resources I have searched through don't address this aspect of using Legacy. Chris 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
