Don't forget that it is very quick to either reload a saved source, or copy an existing source to the Source Clipboard.
I have some long projects going on, that I return to from time to time in-between other bits and pieces in the family tree. Rather than setting up the Source Clipboard from scratch when I come back to a project, I recall the information from a previously-applied/saved source. This ensures there are no differences that result in separate source citations where-ever possible. Usually, I go to someone in the tree where I've already entered data from the same source, and copy that source to the clipboard using the "Copy Source to Clipboard" icon in the bottom left-hand corner of the Assigned Sources window. I then make any updates needed (usually just the recorded date changed to today), and it's ready to use. Alternately, I could have saved that source using the Save button in the bottom right-hand corner of the Source Clipboard window, and then used the Load button to retrieve it next time I wanted to use it. This could be an answer to the situation Jenny described. I've saved one one of these long-project sources just now as I type, to check out how it works, and it's just as quick to load a saved source as it is to copy an existing source to the clipboard. When I go to load that saved source back into the clipboard, I could assign it to any of the five source tabs I wanted to, if I was going to use more than one source at a time. William said in his post "This sounds like a feature that should have stayed gone. It sounds like an accident waiting to happen when someone inadvertently goes to apply what they think is one source then applies up to five." As I said before, I've never had a use for five sources all at the same time - but plenty of people here on this list have said they did when it was available before. In this incarnation you have the option of showing one or five sources, which we didn't have before. Kind Regards, Wendy Kathy Thompson said the following on 13/01/2014 12:26 a.m.: > Thanks David, Wendy & Jenny. > > If all 5 are pasted at once, I'm not in favour of it afterall. > > I had hoped to be able to use the 5 sources selectively when entering > a newly found / newly source-proved family. > > Thanks for the explanations everyone. > > > On 12 January 2014 20:46, Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk > <mailto:ge...@cedarbank.me.uk>> wrote: > > On 12/01/2014 08:46, Wendy Howard wrote: > > When you've set up as many sources (up to five) as you need, you can > > then apply those sources to any item of data you enter into your > > database. You can only apply all the set-up sources together, > you can't > > pick and choose which one you'll use. > > Which is the only way this "multi-clipboard" feature would be of > any use > to me. > > Very often one is entering the details of a new-found family, > including > perhaps entries for BMDs from Indexes, and Census entries. The same > Master Sources for every person, just differing in Detail. Being able > to put several of these Sources on the Clipboard and then SELECTIVELY > paste them would be a bit time saver, but pasting all of them to each > person is just not required. > > -- > 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
