Hi David,
Thank you so much for responding for your step by step
instructions. Your right I was totally baffled the more I read
the more I got myself confused. Not only with documenting
the sources but also with the clipboard feature.
Usually I'm pretty good with this kind of stuff.
Again I appreciate your much needed help.
Diane
- Original Message -
From: David Bonnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:14 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Re: A True Beginner
Diane:
I, too, began using Legacy about 7 or 8 months ago.
I, like you, was totally baffled by the source documentation of Legacy,
especially how to decide what was a Master Source.
I have seen so many different ideas on what to do it was confusing.
I decided the most important thing to do was to:
1.) satisfy myself
2.) make the record so someone else could find the source of my findings
by
reading what I wrote.
That's it.
For a birth record that contains name, date, place, parents names, etc I
do
the following:
Master Source:
Master Source Name and the Title: Birth Record Surname, Given Name
(when I add more birth records, they are all under Birth Record with
surname and given name following),
Publication Facts:
Under Publication Facts: Here I list all the data necessary for some to
find the same document which would include, the City, Township, County,
State, the Government Office, (Church), the book number, and the page
number,
Then under Text of the source I type in the actual wording
Under Comments: I type in what my thoughts are about this record.
Under Repository: I type in the name of where the document is located.
Under Picture: I always try to get a digital picture of the record (my
camera) or a scanned copy of the record. I add the picture of the record
here. (NO TRANSPOSITION ERRORS in a picture!)
Now that you have the Master Source documented, the Detail Source is next.
Under the Individual data input screen you can use this Birth Record for
the
persons name, his birthdate, his birthplace, his parents names
documentation.
You just put your cursor in the Given Name data entry line, click on the
Books Icon (for sources) and click. When the Source data entry window
comes up, Click on Cite a Master Source, select the Master Birth Record
for that person, click to select, and now the Detail Screen appears.
Now since ALL the necessary data in already in the Master Source, I just
type in
the following, John Edward Surname is the name listed on the Birth
Record.
And I am done for the Name Detail Source,
Now you can do that for the birthdate, his birthplace, his parents names
Detail Source.
Clipboard:
The Clipboard is a name given to that mysterious cyberland place that
holds
data you send copy to the Clipboard from one place, and you want the
same words, picture, etc, in another place.
Once you have sent or copied an item, you go to where you want it to
be
placed. Once there, put your curser there and Paste from the Clipboard,
and a copy of the item should appear where you want it.
I use the Clipboard mostly in Editing Events in the life of a person, or a
family group. When you are editing an event (you need to be in the edit
event window), on the lower right side of buttons, under the Help
Button
are two little squares. Run your cursor over them and you will see one is
paste to the clipboard, and the other is a paste from the clipboard.
Like all things in life, it is simple when you know how to do it!
David
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