Thank you Leon and Cathy for your suggestions. I will give a try to each of them to see what I like best. I am familiar with all of the Legacy reports, but I want to do the writing and sentences myself, so the Legacy Event SEntence formats will not be of use to me. I am a rather creative writer . . .
I was hoping for a blank page upon which I would write in paragraphs and be able to number the footnotes for each chapter section. For example, I am going to start with: Military - the Revolutionary War my footnotes would be M.1 for Military, number 1, etc. Migration - Scotland to County Tyrone, Ireland (another chapter), notes would be M.1 Migration - County Tyrone, Ireland to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, notes would be M.2 etc. Over the years I have sourced my findings, but the format has varied as I have learned different things and I would like the footnotes to be consistent and correct for today's format. Even this wee discussion is helping me to think through my organization. I may only do two generations for this report as my patriot, Francis Fergus (1752-1841) and his wife had 9 children. One daughter died after her daughter was born, and the daughter did not reach full age, so no further ancestors from that line. But the other 8 have carried the line forward, and, I am in contact with descendants of ALL 8 children via e-mail, telephone, and mail! I know that is quite unusual, but that's what I've done. My genealogy start began with my high school English teacher who had assigned writing a paper about my heritage . . . my mother, also a teacher told me that I would need to get on the elevated to Chicago and go to the Newberry Library where I would find books about my family . . . and I went and I did. When I found my name in one of the books, I was 'hooked'. Nothing more until I had my own children and decided to help input information into the supplements. After traveling to Scotland and Ireland to walk the family lands, I decided to update the books my cousins had begun 90 years prior. I inherited about 2,300 names, all from my one patriot! I now have over 17,000 persons from that one patriot . . . descendants, spouses and children. Oh, yes, it has been a journey. About 10 years ago I joined the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) . . . now have 23 Revolutionary War Patriots, one being a woman! Can you tell, I like to write, as I speak? I'll give your suggestions my best efforts and may I keep in touch, questioning, reporting, etc.? G'night, Cynthia Dodd Nichols Russell great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co Tyrone, IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783 Pennsylvania/USA -1855 Ohio/USA The Village at Bay Ridge, 3950 Scenic Ridge Drive, #317, Traverse City, MI (Michigan) 49684/USA, phone 231.463.4343 FaceBook: Cynthia Nichols Russell fergusresearc...@gmail.com On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cynthia N. Russell, > > It sounds like you'll want to make use of some Legacy Reports and edit > them yourself in Word. > So experiment with the Legacy Report Options and save them to RTF (Rich > Text format) for opening in your Word Processor. If your sources have been > entered in Legacy as Sources then the RTF will include the sources though > in an RTF you can add more. Note Legacy has the Publishing Centre where you > can combine a number of Legacy reports and add Special text chapters and/or > leave pages for text you've developed in Word. > > Note Options - Customise 7.9 relates to sources in RTF output and in the > Report Options there are options for pictures in RTF output. I think you > need to choose the RTF output before clicking on Report Options button for > these to become active. > > How useful the RTF Report will be depends a lot on how you've been > entering the data and what attention you've paid to Event Sentence > Definitions and using the occasional Sentence Override for Events. If you > haven't been checking output over the 30 years of collecting, it may not be > much use and you may only want to incorporate reports with minimum options. > If you've been paying attention to output people can get amazingly > polished results, including using the new Story features in Legacy 9. > > If you have been sourcing in Legacy but decide to do all your writing in > Word, then you can copy and paste Sources from the Assigned Sources page. > Highlight the source citation you want and copy from the Preview pane at > the bottom of the Assigned Sources screen. Note the radio buttons so you > can show as it would Print rather than all details. > > Hope that helps, > Cathy > > Cynthia N. Russell wrote: > > > Hoping someone will be able to assist me as I begin to write my first > Legacy Ancestor Book. I have been researching for over 30 years and, I > am now ready to get started with all of the sourced information I have > accumlated both throughout the United States and abroad. > > My book will have various sections and I would like to begin and > sourcing my patriot's Revolutionary War service. Not sure how to do > footnotes for the passages I want to copy directly. I am a retired > English teacher, so I am not asking how to do footnotes. I want to > know if I should do my written portions in a Word document . . . and > do I do my footnotes at the same time? Or is there a format within > Legacy to accomplish that? > > Keeping my fingers crossed to find a patient, kind and knowledgeable > person to assist me in answering my questions. I am not in any hurry > to receive an answer, as I have a lot to accomplish, but, I also know > that beginning correctly will enhance my willingness to continue to > completion. Thanking you in advance for ready my request, > > Cynthia D > . > Russell > great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co > Tyrone, IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA > great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783 > Pennsylvania/USA -1855 Ohio/USA > fergusresearc...@gmail.com <mailto:fergusresearc...@gmail.com> > >
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