Hi Dennis, you said this in a much more clear way than I could - thanks!
I think what I would like to see is the ability for a single master to have
mutiple identical citations that act together as a single unit.
Here's some sample data to (hopefully) demonstrate my point below:
Master: Cemetery A
Citation: John Doe tombstone
Citation: Jane Doe tombstone
Citation: Baby Doe tombstone
Facts/Events where one or more combo master+citation unit are attached:
John Doe name
John Doe birth
John Doe death
John Doe burial
Jane Doe name
Jane Doe birth
Jane Doe death
Jane Doe burial
Baby Doe name
Baby Doe birth
Baby Doe death
Baby Doe burial
For the one master source above, we might have (for example) three citations
and twelve or more actual lines (master + detail) in the database to cover
all the attachments. It might be even more if John Doe's tombstone is also
a source for Baby Doe's name
It would be nice to count the master source + unique detail (i.e. Cemetery A
+ John Doe tombstone) as one complete source unit. This unit as a whole
would be one link which could be applied to any number of events. In some
cases I have obituaries for a person and it's attached to several facts for
that person and several facts for spouse and kids.
I am no pro with databases, but this might be the beginning point for
thoughts on how to revamp the sources.
Another hope I have for Legacy is to be able to go to a repository, see all
the sources linked to it, and then click on a source to go to it, and then
be able to make edits from there. This would work similar to the way we can
see the children's list and then go to them directly to make edits. I might
find that one child has a county and state for the bith and the others only
have a state listed. I can easily make these changes. With sources, I have
to resort to printing out some lengthy report in order to see what needs
fixing.
I may not be saying all this in a way that makes much sense, but people who
understand databases will probably know better what I mean.
Thanks,
Gail Rich Nestor
Smyrna, Georgia, USA
www.roots2buds.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Kowallek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Help with sourcing
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 17:24:16 +1000, "Peter Haughton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
When you "attach" a given source to name, birth info, death info,
burial info, ... it is not "copied" to each of those entries, but only
"linked" as you requested. Thus only a extra "pointer" to the source
is stored, not all the source info. This is one of the advantages of
having a full relational database structure behind the Legacy
program, unlike earlier programs.
The citation (aka Source Detail) is "copied" (tblSX). It, in turn,
contains a pointer to a Master Source (tblSR).
So if I apply the contents of the Source Clipboard to birth, baptism,
death, and burial, I get 4 rows inserted in tblSX (assuming the
clipboard has only 1 citation in it), each row will point to a single
row in tblSR.
--
Dennis M. Kowallek
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