Gail and others, I went to your website and noticed you have quite a bit of information on it.
Having looked into most of the genealogy, program-generated-website tools, I opted for TNG (Then Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding). You can find it here, http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php . I'm not working for him or receiving any compensation for this referral. I just noticed some people have extensive information and web sites trying to display that information. TNG creates dynamically generated web pages through PHP scripts using your GEDCOM file. I recommend taking a look at it. This would be considered a supplement not any type of replacement for Legacy, so this wouldn't cost them any revenue at all. There is some moderate setup required, but there is a good help file to do this. If you need help, Darrin (the programmer), will help you out. If you have any questions, e-mail Darrin. You can also take a look at my site. I only modified it slightly, because I have some abilities in this area. It is still small, but is a good example as to what your website can look like... Much, much more appealing than any geanealogy software can create. Good luck, Robin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gail Nestor Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing to Evidence! by Mills I wanted to say thanks to JR, Bruce, and C.G. for your comments regarding the topic of source formatting in Legacy. JR, I agree with you that there are plenty of places in Legacy to place information that doesn't fit anywhere else, and that formatting isn't always the biggest issue. I too want to have fun with my genealogy software and have immensely enjoyed Legacy for over two years. However, I also agree with C.G. that the need to publish drives us to achieve some sort of readable, at least semi-standardized formatting. My proposal to Legacy is just to add a few more areas of flexibility for source formatting and there will still be plenty of room for the "artistic" side of the citation details. Here are the specifics: 1) Allow the user to choose the order of the source output components for reports and web sites (and have a standard default for those who don't want to mess with it). The option could be similar to that where the user currently edits an event sentence. The individual components of the Master Source (i.e. Title, Author, Publication Facts, Repository) can be inserted any place in the source output in any combination with the particular citation detail. This could be customized for all citations within a particular source type. I use a different format for a census citation than I would for a book or a deed copied from the county courthouse or a newspaper on microfilm. 2) Give the user the capability to format the output with whatever punctuation and/or italics, etc, he/she sees fit. This all sounds a bit complicated, but I am convinced it would not be too hard for Legacy's programmers to implement or to use. The default could still be in place for anyone who isn't concerned with this issue. Finally, I wanted to mention that Ms. Mills is actively working on a new version of *Evidence!* that sounds like it will be fabulous. In the mean time, she has a handy new inexpensive tool call a QuickSheet which is great for citing online sources. I feel that with a few tweaks, Legacy can provide the flexibility for its users to keep up with any changes in source citations that might be coming down the pipeline. Again, to me, this is what genealogy is all about - the source! Thanks again for everyone's feedback. I continue to learn much from this list! Gail Rich Nestor Smyrna, Georgia http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nestorgenealogy/ C.G. Ouimet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It may be true that to many of us, the (Legacy) database is it but it is also the tool we use to generate/publish reports in a form that is information to those interested in the data/information but not the tool. So, the various reports, including the Publishing Center if we can get it working properly, are important. Bruce wrote: Well said, John. I agree with you on all points. JR wrote: I completely agree that E. S. Mills is The Authority on citing sources. I have her book and it is an impressive little thing. It is also IMO a bit "over the top". She has all these different formats for all these different sources and it just seems to me to be a bit TOO involved. Now Legacy may not have the flexibility of TMG, but then folks complain about TMG being ugly, hard to learn and slow. Maybe there's a trade off here, and if you throw all the flexibility of TMG into Legacy 7, you wind up with an Ugly and/or Slower Legacy? Maybe it takes so much developer time that other things don't get in? I'd much rather see Legacy 7 make descendant charts than see it handle sources in reports better. Also at a certain level the need for this escapes me. I agree it may be desireable, but the data are captured by the Legacy Database aren't they? It's just a matter of how it's formatted on output, Footnote vs. Endnote and what fields go into the footnote. Why not just stick the info you want into the comments field and check the box that says include comments in source citation? Yup it's tedious, but it can be done can't it? Besides it seems to me that perhaps Pro Genealogists are a bit behind the technology curve here? They like reports cuz that's what they deal with because that's what's been done in the past. But if the data's all in a database, then just get the database and who needs the report? Gail wrote: In citing my sources, I would like to be able to include the web site address as part of the "master source" in Legacy, and to include the accessed date as part of the "citation detail." With Legacy, I cannot do this and have it formatted as Mills' example above (combined within the parentheses). I recently brought this up on the APG list and Ms. Mills herself responded to my post: "Sounds like you need to lobby your software developer to give you more flexibility!" 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