I was a Family Tree Maker user from the very early days all the way up to FTM 2005. I paid for FTM2008 and aquired the free upgrade to FTM2009 and found them both to be retrograde from FTM2005, which had it's own problems. In jumping ship to Legacy (a much better package), I found myself transferring data via gedcom back to FTM2005 for some of my charting needs. I also upload via gedcom to rootsweb worldconnect. For the above reasons I stopped using Sourcewriter. Also, if Legacy ever go the same way as FTM, then I would jump ship again - as Jenny mentioned, SW will not transpose to other Genealogy packages (as yet). As a principle I try to avoid any options that only apply to one genealogical package.
Alan Pereira -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk] Sent: 08 October 2012 14:59 To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Basic Source Format vs Source Writer On 08/10/2012 13:42, Suzanne Scheraga wrote: > I have been following the thread of changing sources entered in Source > Writer to Basic format but I'm totally confused. Could someone give me > the pros and cons of each format (in simple language)? The great benefits of using SourceWriter are that Sources are presented in a consistent fashion that conforms to a standard (that set by Elizabeth Shown Mills), It is easy to use because all the required information is entered into fields on templates. The big disadvantage is that the format is not recognized by the GEDCOM standard and by other software. There are fewer fields to fill in with Basic Sources, so there is more scope for presenting a Source exactly as you choose and in a format which is likely to remain intact when data is share via GEDCOM. -- Jenny M Benson 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/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
