Thanks to everyone who responded. I’ll try some of the suggested options tonight.
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Leon Chapman Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:03 AM To: Legacy User Group <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Citing a Source You MUST cite each piece of data for every person. You can do the sourcing in a few different ways. 1. Source each person and their data as you enter them using 1 master source & clipboard - this is what I would do. This is pretty easy - create the master source and copy it to the clipboard. Enter each person’s data and 1 click on triple bar on left side of data entry screen assigns the clipboard source to all the fields for that person. So, basically, it is 1 more click on data entry to assign the source to that persons data. 2. Create a blank Legacy database and enter all the new people and then create 1 master source A. Then, source everyone and all their data using advanced sourcing. B. Import these people into your main database (Note: you will need one common person in both databases to aid with the import/merging of people. 3. You can enter all the new people without any sourcing A. Create 1 master source for these people B. Tag all Descendants from the oldest person (sister) that gave you the information (Tag all of the new people with Tag 1) C. Use Advanced Sourcing (From Tools) and assign the new source to everyone with a Tag 1 and all their data fields. Any of these options work, but Options 2 and 3 require a little more knowledge of importing / merging / Tagging / Sourcing. If you have less that about 15-20 people, I would use option 1. When you more than 20 people, then option 2 or 3 will be much easier to accomplish the sourcing of everyone’s information. Good luck. Leon Chapman chap...@gmail.com <mailto:chap...@gmail.com> On Jul 26, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Dennis Birke <dpbi...@gmail.com <mailto:dpbi...@gmail.com> > wrote: I’ve been using Legacy for several years, but I’m only beginning to cite sources. So, I’m still trying to figure out the best way to handle citations. Here is the situation I’m currently grappling with: Until recently, my family database did not include information about the descendants of one of my great-grandfather’s sisters. I recently connected with the daughter of the sister and she has provided me with fairly complete information about all of the sister’s descendants – about 40 people when you include spouses. (You can imagine my delight in getting this treasure trove of information in one fell swoop!) Since this information was fairly hard to come by, I’d like to cite the source (i.e., personal correspondence from the daughter). But, it feels like “overkill” to generate a citation to this source for each of four or five fields of data for each of about 40 people. That’s a lot of repetitive work (even when using the clipboard) and that will generate a lot of duplicate footnotes in a descendants report (which is the type of report I most frequently generate). So, I have been considering preparing one citation (probably connected with the sister) saying something like: “Unless otherwise noted, all cited information regarding [Sister X} and her descendants was obtained from [Name of daughter] by letter dated ____.” The problem I see with this approach is that for certain kinds of reports, the single citation tied to the sister may not be included in the report and there will be nothing cited for a the many descendants. How would those of you familiar with citation practices handle this situation? Thanks for any assistance you can provide. -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com> LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe <http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com> http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
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