I use emails as sources. I don't use Source Writer at all. I use each email as a master source.
Source list name: Email - Joe Blow to Jennifer Crockett 28 Aug 2011 Title: Joe Blow, "Re: New TNG user registration request", email message to Jennifer Crockett 28 Aug 2011 I then put the text of the email in "Text of Source" and put [[ at the start so it doesn't print. (I save the email as a .txt file temporarily in Notepad++. I then format the email so the lines stay together properly in Legacy. I highlight a sentence or paragraph and use Crl + J to make sure it wordwraps properly.) Occasionally I will use Source Detail to extract relevant parts of the email if it is a long one. The way I do the Source List Name, all emails from one person will sort together. Regards, Jennifer http://colston-wenck.com From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:paula.ryb...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2013 8:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] emails & Legacy Syble, Regarding information received from relatives that I enter into Legacy and want to cite the source: I have wrestled with this, because many people here on the LUG will say use an email source template or something like that. Although I haven't gone through and "standardized" my source citations, I have master sources for each person, and then in the detail citation I put the medium; for example, "interview Jan 4 2011" or "email Feb 14 2010" or "letter Mar 30 2007" etc. Hope this addresses your question. --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________________ From: Syble Glasscock <syble_...@yahoo.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Sent: Fri, January 11, 2013 3:05:02 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] emails & Legacy I was wondering how others handle this. I receive e-mails from other family researchers asking various questions, sometimes sending me information that I'd like to document and if I find additional information be able to readily get back in touch with that researcher. Sometimes I have a related person in my database and sometimes not. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like to document this is Legacy, any ideas would be appreciated. As with a recent e-mail, I said I'd get back to her if I find additional information, I have family folders in my e-mail program, but having it in Legacy would be much more practical. Thanks, Syble Glasscock 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
