Hi Jenny Thank you for your help. I seem to be doing the same as you for filing most transcription material withing Legacy but I respond to a couple of your points in the hope that I can learn some more.
Wills and monumental inscriptions often provide clinching evidence for relationships between family members, which I don't think can be sourced What do you mean "which I don't think can be sourced"? Legacy provides a way of sourcing evidence to support events such as births and christenings which can point to a father-son relationship, but the link between a father and son for instance does not seem to be capable of being supported by a source citation There are 2 obvious places: as part of an Event and/or as part of the Source Citation. What I do rather depends on the nature of the "document." If I have a copy of a Will I only put a summary in the Notes field of a Will Event and attach the actual document to the Source Details. If I have, for example, copied the wording from a gravestone I will include all the wording in the Notes of a Memorial Inscription Event and also add it to the Text/Comments field of the Source Details. Thanks, I am doing what you do. I just seems untidy to place the same or similar transcribed material (more pressing with the amount that needs to be taken from a will) in several places in the Legacy database. For instance, a monumental inscription may give individual 1's date of birth and date of death and show that individual 2 was a son-in-law, with his date of death and age (giving approximate date of birth). The same transcribed information can be in the database in several places. Multiplicity of entries is more presssing with wills because I find I need to include a large amount of transcription to support each event. Although the issue of multiple appearances of the same material is more pressing for wills, the principle applies to other kinds of source; monumental inscriptions provide the least difficulty but still does have issues. The principle of how data are stored in Legacy ought to apply to be the same no matter what kind of source it might be. 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
