Jim -- I avoid the source detail for exactly the reasons that you mentioned. My most frequent use of the feature is for city directories and some books. Otherwise, I create individual sources for census households, vital records, probates, deeds, and so on.
Cafi Cohen Arroyo Grande, CA -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Winfrey There are a couple of problems using source details to track individuals who share an event. Source details don't print out on most reports and it is difficult to search them to get lists of people. I have tried this approach but it was not as good as creating via the event clipboard. Thanks, Jim On 8/26/05, Bert van Kootwijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why not use this as a source (detail) with all participants in the detail. > It is easy to link all those people to this source. Editing the source is > also easy and done in seconds for all of them. > > > Groeten > > Bert van Kootwijk > > Homepage: http://home.hetnet.nl/~vankoot/index.html > Genealogieen: IJselmonde, Over Betuwe, Gouda-Leiden, West Brabant > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Winfrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 8:37 PM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] witnesses > > > Sherry, > > I agree that the event clipboard was a major step in the right > direction and, in fact, use it to create pseudo linked events. But > creating them is not the issue. Let's say that I add 40 family > members who attended a wedding. I create a list, add the event to the > first person, then copy it via the event clipboard to the other 39. > Takes a while but saves a lot of time. Ten minutes later I realize > that I misspelled weddin and need to correct. This time it is either > repeat the clipboard or do 40 edits. That's my definition of bulky. > > Jim > > On 8/26/05, LegacySupport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gordon > > > > That's what the Event Clipboard is for. It's a Deluxe feature. Some > users > > will just put all that information in the Census Source so the whole > amount > > of info doesn't have to be repeated as an Event - suffice to say the > > individual was on a census and the source shows the details. > > > > Thanks for using Legacy. > > > > Sherry > > Customer Support > > Millennia Corporation > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com > > > > We are changing the world of genealogy! > > > > When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. > > Thanks. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon > > Small > > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 6:06 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] witnesses > > > > <snip> > > > > For instance I have 15 family members listed in one Census. In order to > > document this as an "event" I have to repeat all the documentation 15 > times. > > > > Having to do this for hundreds of census' gets very time consuming. > > <snip> > > > > Gordon > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
