Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards - Round 2

[Mary Young]

David Kleiman  wrote:
>  What I am trying to get answered is: "what GIS standards and metadata are
>  the folks at Millenium using in setting up their Geo Location Database for
>  use with Legacy?"
Aren't you asking the wrong people? The is the Legacy Users Group.
 If indeed the Geo Location Database is controlled by "the folks at
Millenium" (or better yet, the folks at Millennia)  why not direct the
question to them? They're more likely to know the answer!
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RE: [LegacyUG] Alternative Place Names Suggestion

[ronald ferguson]

David,

This seems like a good idea as I know many users add the modern (or other) 
name(s) to the notes. I guess another way would be to create an Alternative 
Place Name Event, I think this can be done in a reasonable fashion, although I 
confess that I have not thought this through.


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> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Alternative Place Names Suggestion
> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:45:26 -0400
>
> Forgive me if this has been suggested previously:
>
> Is there anyone else out there who would like to see sourcable "Alternative
> Place Name" capabilities for Locations as we already have for Given and
> Surnames? This would be useful for anyone working across time and
> geography. Especially for those of us working in areas of the world where
> the language, alphabets, controlling nations, and other geopolitical
> boundary names changed frequently.
>
> Maintaining a master (or Preferred) place name on an event with the ability
> to search across alternate spellings and the ability to source each variant
> would be tremendous.
>
> David M. Kleiman
> Heritage Muse, Inc.
>
>

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RE: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards - Round 2

[David Kleiman]

Thanks for your thoughts on methodology.  I've actually got my own system
pretty well working.  Sorry to be so technical but perhaps I should clarify
my query.

What I am trying to get answered is: "what GIS standards and metadata are
the folks at Millenium using in setting up their Geo Location Database for
use with Legacy?"  

Since I research and publish to a high academic standard, I need to track
the accuracy level of all of my sources and cite them correctly.  If I use
the Legacy GLdb (a very convenient thing) I've got to know about the
standards used in creating it.

For example, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a Federal agency
created back in the late 1800's to "maintain uniform geographic name usage"
throughout the nation's government.  To this day they continue their work
(as the world get's more complex, so does their task) and the US Geological
Survey office makes downloadable text files available free at
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/index.html.  The BGN currently maintains
domestic info and the overseas data is served by the Geographic Names Server
(GNS) of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)?  

Many commercial software systems make use of this standardized data set as
the basis for constructing their own proprietary metadata and application
specific databases.  

Is Legacy amongst these users of the BGN/GNS/NGA info? Or is there some
other standard that has been implemented?  Are there different core data
sets used for the various regions of the world?  If the Legacy GLdb is based
on these government issue datasets how recent is the dataset used in the
current Legacy release (V7)?

Thanks again for any insights and forthcoming assistance on this.

David M. Kleiman
Heritage Muse, Inc.


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RICHARD
SCHULTHIES
Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 7:59 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards

You must first decide which location system you will use, and then the
questions become easy. 
1. Use the location name as it existed at the time of the 'event'. I have
some towns with as many as eight different names.
2. Use the location as it exists 'today'. Then when governments change the
various boundaries, you must re-edit the wole country. Sweden 2 times in
20th century. England, Scotland in the 1990s, US states and counties (see
AniMap).
I use choice 1, because once the research is done, the past doesn't re-do
itself.
Rich in LA CA

--- On Sat, 9/27/08, David Kleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: David Kleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 9:43 AM
> Couple of questions to the informed crowd here
> 
> I am working to reconcile a large number of European place
> name citations in
> a fairly large Legacy file (30,000+ individuals) between
> currently accepted
> naming conventions and older or alternate spelling and
> language differences.
> A simple clear example is the old American spelling of the
> Ukrainian town
> "Lvov" which on most current maps is Lviv or
> L'viv.
> 
> Question:
> Can anyone tell me what the source was for the Legacy Geo
> Location Database
> names?  Is there an standard academic source(s) against
> which that list is
> published?  For example: The US Geological Survey database,
> or some other
> world atlas(es)?
> 
> If the spelling standardization is a Millenium Corp.
> construct, is there a
> listing of the transliteration guidelines used in building
> these lists?
> 
> Thanks for any insights
> 
> David M. Kleiman
> Heritage Muse, Inc.
> 
> 
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RE: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards

[ronald ferguson]

David,

Like Richard I try to use the convention at the time of the event, but would 
emphasise that the 4 field format used by the Geo Location Base does not work 
with UK and many European locations.

The Geo Location Base was developed for US locations and whilst attempts have 
been made to fit other countries' locations into this format the results at not 
satisfactory and frequently do not give a unique location, consequently I 
ignore it. The only disadvantage I find is that the Geo Location Base does not 
work, but it is only a minute's job to put a loction into the 4 field format to 
check where it is, if not known. Personally I use The Times Comprehensive Atlas 
of the World.

I hope this helps.


Ron Ferguson
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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards
> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:43:36 -0400
>
> Couple of questions to the informed crowd here
>
> I am working to reconcile a large number of European place name citations in
> a fairly large Legacy file (30,000+ individuals) between currently accepted
> naming conventions and older or alternate spelling and language differences.
> A simple clear example is the old American spelling of the Ukrainian town
> "Lvov" which on most current maps is Lviv or L'viv.
>
> Question:
> Can anyone tell me what the source was for the Legacy Geo Location Database
> names? Is there an standard academic source(s) against which that list is
> published? For example: The US Geological Survey database, or some other
> world atlas(es)?
>
> If the spelling standardization is a Millenium Corp. construct, is there a
> listing of the transliteration guidelines used in building these lists?
>
> Thanks for any insights
>
> David M. Kleiman
> Heritage Muse, Inc.
>
>
>

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[LegacyUG] starting user group in my area

[jboltonlug]

I am interested in starting a legacy user group in my area. How do I go about 
doing this? The Legacy web page is not clear on this. I want to start one in 
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Re: [LegacyUG] a problem with assigning sources

[RICHARD SCHULTHIES]

You may not be able to do the 'second' in the AKA page, but after adding the 
first, I frequently go into the 'Assigned Sources for XX' screen. It always 
allows that plan.
Rich in LA CA


--- On Thu, 9/25/08, Michele Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Michele Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a problem with assigning sources
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Date: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 4:51 PM
> I just tried that and it will won't let me assign more
> than one source to a 
> single AKA.  It is weird because it is only the case when
> the SOURCE is the 
> same but the DETAIL is differnet.  I have some other cases
> where I have 
> added completely different sources to a single AKA entry
> and it will record 
> multiple sources.
> 
> michele
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "ronald ferguson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] a problem with assigning sources
> 
> 
> 
> Jenny,
> 
> I haven't got time to check this out at the moment, so
> I'm going, off 
> memory. I suspect what Michele may be doing is to enter the
> death then the 
> the source with child 1 in the detail, then clicking the
> blue line agin and 
> entering child2 and repeating. I think in this way only one
> source will be 
> recorded.
> 
> If it is first saved before entering the second  and saved
> each time before 
> repeating I suspect it will be ok.
> 
> 
> Ron Ferguson
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> 
> > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:41:41 +0100
> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] a problem with assigning
> sources
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> >
> >
> > Michele Lewis wrote:
> >>
> >> Here is the situation...
> >>
> >> I have 5 children graves that have this
> information on their markers...
> >>
> >> Daughter of (or son) Willie O. & Dora S. Lewis
> >>
> >> Each child has a different source (same source,
> different detail) for all
> >> of
> >> their facts surrounding these markers (name, date
> of birth, date of
> >> death).
> >>
> >> I am sourcing the AKAs for the mother and father.
> When I assign the first
> >> child's source to the mother and father's
> AKA all is good. When I try to
> >> add another child's source to the AKAs it
> won't take it. Legacy thinks it
> >> is the same source even though the DETAIL is
> different.
> >>
> >> The SOURCE is the cemetery that I went out and
> surveyed this morning. The
> >> DETAIL is the individual child's name on the
> marker.
> >>
> >> Legacy is just seeing the source and not the
> detail and won't assign the
> >> different sources to the one fact (the mother and
> father's AKA)
> >>
> >
> > Please could you detail exactly the steps you are
> taking to assign these
> > sources as I have I am unable to replicate this
> problem: I have many
> > instances of people having the same Master Source
> twice, with different
> > Details, for the same Event/Fact.
> >
> > --
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Re: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards

[RICHARD SCHULTHIES]

You must first decide which location system you will use, and then the 
questions become easy. 
1. Use the location name as it existed at the time of the 'event'. I have some 
towns with as many as eight different names.
2. Use the location as it exists 'today'. Then when governments change the 
various boundaries, you must re-edit the wole country. Sweden 2 times in 20th 
century. England, Scotland in the 1990s, US states and counties (see AniMap).
I use choice 1, because once the research is done, the past doesn't re-do 
itself.
Rich in LA CA

--- On Sat, 9/27/08, David Kleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: David Kleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Date: Saturday, September 27, 2008, 9:43 AM
> Couple of questions to the informed crowd here
> 
> I am working to reconcile a large number of European place
> name citations in
> a fairly large Legacy file (30,000+ individuals) between
> currently accepted
> naming conventions and older or alternate spelling and
> language differences.
> A simple clear example is the old American spelling of the
> Ukrainian town
> "Lvov" which on most current maps is Lviv or
> L'viv.
> 
> Question:
> Can anyone tell me what the source was for the Legacy Geo
> Location Database
> names?  Is there an standard academic source(s) against
> which that list is
> published?  For example: The US Geological Survey database,
> or some other
> world atlas(es)?
> 
> If the spelling standardization is a Millenium Corp.
> construct, is there a
> listing of the transliteration guidelines used in building
> these lists?
> 
> Thanks for any insights
> 
> David M. Kleiman
> Heritage Muse, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [LegacyUG] Help me source this

[Terri Brown]

Michele,
 
You may have to either use a Basic Style source for this one or "tweak" one of 
the Source Writer templates. Artifacts/Privately Held may be a good option or 
possibly one of the Journals templates (either Original, privately held or 
Typescript, privately held.) "Stammbuch" translates to family album so I would 
probably use Artifacts/Privately Held and use the local registrar as the 
Agency/Creator.
 
Terri



- Original Message 
From: Michele Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 1:47:23 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Help me source this

Which sourcewriter category would be best for this source...

I have something called a "Stammbuch" which every German family has (or at 
least did have years ago).  It is a special book used to records a single 
family's marriage of the parents, births of the children and their bapismal 
dates and deaths.  This book is actually a goverment sort of thing.  The 
marriage, births, deaths are actually stamped by the local registrar.

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Re: [LegacyUG] Another sourcing question

[Terri Brown]

Michele,
 
For this one I would use Aritfacts/Privately Held
 
Terri



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Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:14:30 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Another sourcing question


Which sourcewriter template would you use for a slip of paper found in a 
person's personal effects found at their death in which 3 people's full names, 
dates of birth and dates of death are recorded?  
 
This piece of paper was found when we went through my mother-in-law's things 
after she died.  It records three people that are buried in unmarked graves so 
these dates are essential.  They died before county birth and death records 
were kept.  This is the only record of these dates available.
 
michele

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Re: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs

[Pauline B. Cramer]

Carol,

If you click on the Index tab, all you have to do to get rid of the 
"RINs with the "double S" prefix is to go to the Options button in the 
upper right corner and click to turn off the "Include Married Names" 
options. What you are calling bogus names should be the married names of 
women. This is not a bug, it is a feature.


This feature enables you to find a married woman by looking for her 
married surname or maiden name, whichever you remember. It is especially 
useful for women who have been married two or three times. It can help 
you avoid entering two or three records for the same individual. The 
names with the squiggle in front of the names are the AKAs. You can get 
rid of them from the Index by unchecking the "Include Alternate Names" 
in Options.


All the names that come up associated with one single unique RIN number 
should be the preferred name for that individual or else that 
individual's married name or alternate name for that individual.


If that is not the case, then, when you started changing RINs, you may 
have inadvertently merged records for two individuals without meaning to 
do so. You may have manually entered RIN numbers that were already used 
for other existing individuals in the Legacy family file. What you are 
calling a bogus name may be the name for another individual that was 
already in the database.


Pauline

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi,

The real problem is how do I remove those with the same RIN as the 
desired person??? The ones which are bogus have a “double S” prefix.


I am looking for help on fixing the problem. Maybe the Legacy support 
team will take a look at my problem. It appears to be a program bug??


Carol



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*Johnny V

*Sent:* Friday, September 26, 2008 5:34 PM
*To:* LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs

Carol,

It puzzles me why Legacy even has this feature. Since Legacy is a 
relational database, an RIN is nothing more than a *_R_*ecord 
*_I_*dentification *_N_*umber instructing the database where to find a 
specific record and what records to relate it to. Changing an RIN is 
not something that should be done - period.


Just my 2¢ worth

John Valencic

On 9/26/08, *ronald ferguson* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:



Carol,

I do not know what you mean by "the pedigree numbering system", 
something I'm afraid I've never heard of. RINs are allocated in the 
order in which individuals are added to the database and I have mine 
set not to reuse epmty numbers. I have never changed a RIN and have no 
intention of doing so since the RINs are used as the file names for 
pedigree web pages which happen to be my main interest. In any event 
any order which might be set will soon be messed up as other names are 
added.


I think what you mean by muddled/duplicate numbers in the Index View 
is because you have it set to show alternate names and alternate 
married names, these have the same RIN as the main name for the 
individual, as they are one and the same persons.



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> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com 


> Subject: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:35:54 -0700
>
> Hi,
>
> Just started to change the RINs so they match the pedigree numbering 
system,

> and found a problem getting other individuals with the changed number.
> Several persons who RIN was change has other names with the same 
number as
> seen in the Index view. When you high-light the bogus name and try to 
view

> its Family view, it doesn't go to that name but the person I assigned to
> number. The bogus name starts with a double S symbol, but lists the vital
> data of the person I assigned the number to.
>
> I tried all the file maintenance, but didn't fix the problem. I have the
> latest version of the program, and use XP.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Carol
>
>

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Re: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs

[Wendy Howard]

Hi Carol,

"The real problem is how do I remove those with the same RIN as the 
desired person??? The ones which are bogus have a “double S” prefix."


Where are you seeing this "double S" (§) as a prefix - is it in the Name 
List, or the Index view, or somewhere else? I know this symbol is used 
in the Family view at the *end* of a child's name to indicate that this 
person is married but has no children of their own, but don't know of it 
being used elsewhere to know what it is meaning, and it is not mentioned 
in the Help under "Symbols on names".


Going back to your original query, you said "Several persons who RIN was 
change has other names with the same number as seen in the Index view. 
When you high-light the bogus name and try to view its Family view, it 
doesn't go to that name but the person I assigned to number."


This tells me that you have "Include Alternate Names" turned on, and 
those people have AKAs entered. AKAs in the Name List and in the Index 
view are indicated with a tilde (~) at the beginning of the alternative 
name. It is absolutely correct that they have the same RIN showing as 
their "real" name.


While you are going through this renumbering exercise, you may find it 
helpful to turn off the option to show alternate names.


Hope this helps. :-)

Kind Regards,
Wendy Howard
--
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[LegacyUG] Another sourcing question

[Michele Lewis]

Which sourcewriter template would you use for a slip of paper found in a 
person's personal effects found at their death in which 3 people's full names, 
dates of birth and dates of death are recorded?  

This piece of paper was found when we went through my mother-in-law's things 
after she died.  It records three people that are buried in unmarked graves so 
these dates are essential.  They died before county birth and death records 
were kept.  This is the only record of these dates available.

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RE: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs

[cabyers]

Hi,

 

The real problem is how do I remove those with the same RIN as the desired
person???  The ones which are bogus have a “double S” prefix.  

 

I am looking for help on fixing the problem.  Maybe the Legacy support team
will take a look at my problem.  It appears to be a program bug??

 

Carol

 

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny V
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 5:34 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs

 

Carol,

It puzzles me why Legacy even has this feature. Since Legacy is a relational
database, an RIN is nothing more than a Record Identification Number
instructing the database where to find a specific record and what records to
relate it to. Changing an RIN is not something that should be done - period.

Just my 2¢ worth

John Valencic

On 9/26/08, ronald ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Carol,

I do not know what you mean by "the pedigree numbering system", something
I'm afraid I've never heard of. RINs are allocated in the order in which
individuals are added to the database and I have mine set not to reuse epmty
numbers. I have never changed a RIN and have no intention of doing so since
the RINs are used as the file names for pedigree web pages which happen to
be my main interest. In any event any order which might be set will soon be
messed up as other names are added.

I think what you mean by muddled/duplicate numbers in the Index View is
because you have it set to show alternate names and alternate married names,
these have the same RIN as the main name for the individual, as they are one
and the same persons.


Ron Ferguson

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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
> Subject: [LegacyUG] Problem Changing RINs
> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:35:54 -0700
>
> Hi,
>
> Just started to change the RINs so they match the pedigree numbering
system,
> and found a problem getting other individuals with the changed number.
> Several persons who RIN was change has other names with the same number as
> seen in the Index view. When you high-light the bogus name and try to view
> its Family view, it doesn't go to that name but the person I assigned to
> number. The bogus name starts with a double S symbol, but lists the vital
> data of the person I assigned the number to.
>
> I tried all the file maintenance, but didn't fix the problem. I have the
> latest version of the program, and use XP.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Carol
>
>

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[LegacyUG] Help me source this

[Michele Lewis]

Which sourcewriter category would be best for this source...

I have something called a "Stammbuch" which every German family has (or at 
least did have years ago).  It is a special book used to records a single 
family's marriage of the parents, births of the children and their bapismal 
dates and deaths.  This book is actually a goverment sort of thing.  The 
marriage, births, deaths are actually stamped by the local registrar.


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[LegacyUG] Alternative Place Names Suggestion

[David Kleiman]

Forgive me if this has been suggested previously:

Is there anyone else out there who would like to see sourcable "Alternative
Place Name" capabilities for Locations as we already have for Given and
Surnames?  This would be useful for anyone working across time and
geography. Especially for those of us working in areas of the world where
the language, alphabets, controlling nations, and other geopolitical
boundary names changed frequently.

Maintaining a master (or Preferred) place name on an event with the ability
to search across alternate spellings and the ability to source each variant
would be tremendous.

David M. Kleiman
Heritage Muse, Inc.




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[LegacyUG] Geo Location Database Standards

[David Kleiman]

Couple of questions to the informed crowd here

I am working to reconcile a large number of European place name citations in
a fairly large Legacy file (30,000+ individuals) between currently accepted
naming conventions and older or alternate spelling and language differences.
A simple clear example is the old American spelling of the Ukrainian town
"Lvov" which on most current maps is Lviv or L'viv.

Question:
Can anyone tell me what the source was for the Legacy Geo Location Database
names?  Is there an standard academic source(s) against which that list is
published?  For example: The US Geological Survey database, or some other
world atlas(es)?

If the spelling standardization is a Millenium Corp. construct, is there a
listing of the transliteration guidelines used in building these lists?

Thanks for any insights

David M. Kleiman
Heritage Muse, Inc.




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Re: [LegacyUG] 'unsubscribe'

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Re: [LegacyUG] Lack of icons

[Mike Fry]

Terri Brown wrote:

Mike and Marie,
 
I also have 11 icons in Family View. It may be the monitor size. I have 
a 19" widescreen and a 17" standard. On the 19" widescreen I get 11 
icons. On the 17" standard I get 10 icons.


I should have attached a Smiley for Irony! Then I wouldn't be getting 
advice that I didn't solicit or information that I don't need. :-)


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RE: [LegacyUG] a problem with assigning sources

[Jenny M Benson]

RICHARD SCHULTHIES wrote:
> If there is one character different anywhere in the source fields, it is
> not the same. So you cannot create 4 exactly the same sources, the
> computer won't let you. This is a database thing. The Source detail is not
> actually in the source, but attached to the 'side'.

I don't think anyone is talking about creating 4 identical Sources, which
is not possible, as you rightly say.  This discussion is about *citing*
the same Master Source 4 times for one fact/event, with different Source
Details attached each time.

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