David: Thank you very much for the explanation. That really helped make it clearer for me. I'm now teetering on switching over to lumping and using shared events (from splitting and creating separate events).
As I'm playing catch-up I think using the shared events will help me in the time required (much faster to click a few boxes, instead of creating separate events and sourcing them). Although I prefer like Jenny's method, I think I need to focus on completing the project in a timely manner, and once everything has been re-input and properly sourced I can go back and create separate events for key people. Thanks (I'm mostly talking out loud I guess). Leo > From: davidnew...@drdavid.plus.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lumping vs. Splitting > Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:52:37 +0000 > > I think that one advantage of shared events comes from the fact that you > only have one copy of each piece of citation data. As far as I can tell > the Legacy database is not normalized in the sense that it is easily > possible to take, for example, a citation and copy rather than link it > into several places. At this point the citations become independent so > that a correction made to one is not automatically made to the other > copies. In my opinion there should be two possibilities once you have a > citation on the clip board - copy or link. So if you intend to use the > citation as the basis for a new citation you copy but if you want to > re-use the same citation exactly then you link. > > The linking mechanism to some extent already exists since media is > generally linked without making multiple copies. > > David > > (I am not receiving emails from LUG for some reason and I am following > the threads though the archive so this may not thread correctly. If it > gets through at all!) > > > > 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 > > 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
