On 10 Mar 2006 at 13:48, Wm Voss wrote: > Right; I understand. An admirable "wish" for the future, thought I > wouldn't hold your breath considering they haven't gotten around to even basic > multiple sourcing within notes and that has been requested since version 2.
I started this particular genealgy database in 1987, and it now has over 12000 people in it. In 1991 I began using PAF 2.x, which had one Notes field, but allowed various tags within the field, so one could have tags like SOURCE ADDRESS, BIOGRAPHY, RESEARCH, QUERY, ACTION and so on. When I transterred these to Legacy the SOURCE tagged notes went into sources (but needed a lot of editing, for example to consolidate Master sources). The rest went into the General Notes field. After I'd been using Legacy for a year, I stopped updating the PAF files. When I do a report like a Descendant Narrative Book, I often see that there are still records that have things like FILE: Doc 845, UPDATED 2 Feb 1998. When I spot them, I make a note of the record, and move those into Research Notes (and driop the UPDATED field, because Legacy automatically keeps track of the last modfified date. I like to put notes to myself -- research to be done, conflicting information and things like that in the Research Notes. I like to use the General Notes for interesting snippets of information, queries to other researchers and so on, for other people to read. But those I put in Family Group Sheets, which I send to members of that family. But where I had a BIOGRAPHY tag in PAF, I would like to move it to a separate field, which can print separately in reports. I believe it would be a useful addition to Legacy, and make it a better program. Yes, there are workarounds, but none of them is very satisfactory. And of course one can think of workarounds for the "separate sources in Notes" problem (which I do not think would be as easy to solve). Many books, for example, use the Harvard system of reference - in the text of the book one gives the reference by Aughto/Date, as (Jones 1993:345ff) -- and then you look up jones 1983 in the bibliography. Similarly, you can put such a reference in brackets in Notes, which could then be looked up in the master source list. But a biography field is a lot easier to implement than individual sources in Notes. And it is a "Wish List" item; I have workarounds that I use, but none of them seems very satisfactory. -- Steve Hayes E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 Enter the drawing for a FREE Legacy Cruise to Alaska or a FREE research trip to Salt Lake's Family History Library. Open to users of Legacy 6 Deluxe. Enter online at http://legacyfamilytree.com/FreeTrip.asp Legacy User Group 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
