Re: [LegacyUG] Book Publishing - Ancestor Book, just beginning

[Mary Leek]

Cynthia,
 
Will you be required to pull everything together in a word processor if you 
plan to use footnotes as you describe? I’m not a whiz at Word but I suspect it 
will be required if you are to use your style of footnotes. Don’t forget to 
include photos and charts with photos as they add so much interest for the 
reader. Your project sounds great and I wish you great success.
 
One thing I would like to point out. You do not need to use the event sentences 
in Legacy. I use the Event Note area almost exclusively as I prefer to write 
most of the information I add so it flows better and doesn’t appear so stilted. 
 
If you take a look at the Publishing Center, do take note of the placeholders. 
They make it easy to include extra material and have it appear in the Table of 
Contents.  I’ve created additions outside of Legacy, saved as PDF documents, 
then included with my ‘book’ by using the placeholder to include the section in 
the Table of Contents. 
 
For my own simple compilations, I pull everything together with Adobe Acrobat, 
as I share my family ‘books’ with family electronically, rather than printing. 
I add a bookmark pane and set it to open when the document is opened. This 
makes it easy for the reader to go directly to a specific family group or 
chart, etc. If the family member wants a printed copy, it is easy to do. My 
compilations aren’t books in the traditional sense but I try to make them 
interesting for my reader.
 
Many ways to get creative and make Legacy work for us. 
 
Thanks for sharing and please keep us posted on your progress as we all learn 
from each other.
 
Mary
 
 
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On 
Behalf Of Cynthia N. Russell
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 9:39 PM
To: Cathy Pinner
Cc: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Book Publishing - Ancestor Book, just beginning
 
Thank you Leon and Cathy for your suggestions.  I will give a try to each of 
them to see what I like best.  I am familiar with all of the Legacy reports, 
but I want to do the writing and sentences myself, so the Legacy Event SEntence 
formats will not be of use to me. I am a rather creative writer . . . 
 
I was hoping for a blank page upon which I would write in paragraphs and be 
able to number the footnotes for each chapter section. For example, I am going 
to start with:
Military - the Revolutionary War
my footnotes would be M.1 for Military, number 1, etc.
 
Migration - Scotland to County Tyrone, Ireland (another chapter), notes would 
be M.1
Migration - County Tyrone, Ireland to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, notes would 
be M.2
etc.
 
Over the years I have sourced my findings, but the format has varied as I have 
learned different things and I would like the footnotes to be consistent and 
correct for today's format.
 
Even this wee discussion is helping me to think through my organization.
 
I may only do two generations for this report as my patriot, Francis Fergus 
(1752-1841) and his wife had 9 children.  One daughter died after her daughter 
was born, and the daughter did not reach full age, so no further ancestors from 
that line.  But the other 8 have carried the line forward, and, I am in contact 
with descendants of ALL 8 children via e-mail, telephone, and mail!  I know 
that is quite unusual, but that's what I've done.  My genealogy start began 
with my high school English teacher who had assigned writing a paper about my 
heritage . . . my mother, also a teacher told me that I would need to get on 
the elevated to Chicago and go to the Newberry Library where I would find books 
about my family . . . and I went and I did.  When I found my name in one of the 
books, I was 'hooked'. Nothing more until I had my own children and decided to 
help input information into the supplements.  After traveling to Scotland and 
Ireland to walk the family lands, I decided to update the books my cousins had 
begun 90 years prior.  I inherited about 2,300 names, all from my one patriot! 
I now have over 17,000 persons from that one patriot . . . descendants, spouses 
and children. Oh, yes, it has been a journey.  About 10 years ago I joined the 
DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) . . . now have 23 Revolutionary War 
Patriots, one being a woman!
 
Can you tell, I like to write, as I speak?
 
I'll give your suggestions my best efforts and may I keep in touch, 
questioning, reporting, etc.?
 
G'night,
 


Cynthia Dodd Nichols Russell
great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co Tyrone, 
IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA
great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783 Pennsylvania/USA 
-1855 Ohio/USA
The Village at Bay Ridge, 3950 Scenic Ridge Drive, #317, Traverse City, MI 
(Michigan) 49684/USA, phone  231.463.4343 
FaceBook: Cynthia Nichols Russell
fergusresearc...@gmail.com
 
On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Cathy Pinner  wrote:
Cynthia N. Russell,

It sounds like you'll want to 

Re: [LegacyUG] Book Publishing - Ancestor Book, just beginning

[Cynthia N. Russell]

Thank you Leon and Cathy for your suggestions.  I will give a try to each
of them to see what I like best.  I am familiar with all of the Legacy
reports, but I want to do the writing and sentences myself, so the Legacy
Event SEntence formats will not be of use to me. I am a rather creative
writer . . .

I was hoping for a blank page upon which I would write in paragraphs and be
able to number the footnotes for each chapter section. For example, I am
going to start with:
Military - the Revolutionary War
my footnotes would be M.1 for Military, number 1, etc.

Migration - Scotland to County Tyrone, Ireland (another chapter), notes
would be M.1
Migration - County Tyrone, Ireland to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, notes
would be M.2
etc.

Over the years I have sourced my findings, but the format has varied as I
have learned different things and I would like the footnotes to be
consistent and correct for today's format.

Even this wee discussion is helping me to think through my organization.

I may only do two generations for this report as my patriot, Francis Fergus
(1752-1841) and his wife had 9 children.  One daughter died after her
daughter was born, and the daughter did not reach full age, so no further
ancestors from that line.  But the other 8 have carried the line forward,
and, I am in contact with descendants of ALL 8 children via e-mail,
telephone, and mail!  I know that is quite unusual, but that's what I've
done.  My genealogy start began with my high school English teacher who had
assigned writing a paper about my heritage . . . my mother, also a teacher
told me that I would need to get on the elevated to Chicago and go to the
Newberry Library where I would find books about my family . . . and I went
and I did.  When I found my name in one of the books, I was 'hooked'.
Nothing more until I had my own children and decided to help input
information into the supplements.  After traveling to Scotland and Ireland
to walk the family lands, I decided to update the books my cousins had
begun 90 years prior.  I inherited about 2,300 names, all from my one
patriot! I now have over 17,000 persons from that one patriot . . .
descendants, spouses and children. Oh, yes, it has been a journey.  About
10 years ago I joined the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) . . .
now have 23 Revolutionary War Patriots, one being a woman!

Can you tell, I like to write, as I speak?

I'll give your suggestions my best efforts and may I keep in touch,
questioning, reporting, etc.?

G'night,


Cynthia Dodd Nichols Russell
great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co Tyrone,
IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA
great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783
Pennsylvania/USA -1855 Ohio/USA
The Village at Bay Ridge, 3950 Scenic Ridge Drive, #317, Traverse City, MI
(Michigan) 49684/USA, phone  231.463.4343
FaceBook: Cynthia Nichols Russell
fergusresearc...@gmail.com

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Cathy Pinner  wrote:

> Cynthia N. Russell,
>
> It sounds like you'll want to make use of some Legacy Reports and edit
> them yourself in Word.
> So experiment with the Legacy Report Options and save them to RTF (Rich
> Text format) for opening in your Word Processor. If your sources have been
> entered in Legacy as Sources then the RTF will include the sources though
> in an RTF you can add more. Note Legacy has the Publishing Centre where you
> can combine a number of Legacy reports and add Special text chapters and/or
> leave pages for text you've developed in Word.
>
> Note Options - Customise 7.9 relates to sources in RTF output and in the
> Report Options there are options for pictures in RTF output. I think you
> need to choose the RTF output before clicking on Report Options button for
> these to become active.
>
> How useful the RTF Report will be depends a lot on how you've been
> entering the data and what attention you've paid to Event Sentence
> Definitions and using the occasional Sentence Override for Events. If you
> haven't been checking output over the 30 years of collecting, it may not be
> much use and you may only want to incorporate reports with minimum options.
> If you've been paying attention to output people can get amazingly
> polished results, including using the new Story features in Legacy 9.
>
> If you have been sourcing in Legacy but decide to do all your writing in
> Word, then you can copy and paste Sources from the Assigned Sources page.
> Highlight the source citation you want and copy from the Preview pane at
> the bottom of the Assigned Sources screen. Note the radio buttons so you
> can show as it would Print rather than all details.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Cathy
>
> Cynthia N. Russell wrote:
>
>
> Hoping someone will be able to assist me as I begin to write my first
> Legacy Ancestor Book. I have been researching for over 30 years and, I
> am now ready to get started with all of the sourced information I have
> accumlated both throughout the United States and abroad.
>
> My 

Re: [LegacyUG] Book Publishing - Ancestor Book, just beginning

[Cathy Pinner]

Cynthia N. Russell,

It sounds like you'll want to make use of some Legacy Reports and edit 
them yourself in Word.
So experiment with the Legacy Report Options and save them to RTF (Rich 
Text format) for opening in your Word Processor. If your sources have 
been entered in Legacy as Sources then the RTF will include the sources 
though in an RTF you can add more. Note Legacy has the Publishing Centre 
where you can combine a number of Legacy reports and add Special text 
chapters and/or leave pages for text you've developed in Word.


Note Options - Customise 7.9 relates to sources in RTF output and in the 
Report Options there are options for pictures in RTF output. I think you 
need to choose the RTF output before clicking on Report Options button 
for these to become active.


How useful the RTF Report will be depends a lot on how you've been 
entering the data and what attention you've paid to Event Sentence 
Definitions and using the occasional Sentence Override for Events. If 
you haven't been checking output over the 30 years of collecting, it may 
not be much use and you may only want to incorporate reports with 
minimum options.
If you've been paying attention to output people can get amazingly 
polished results, including using the new Story features in Legacy 9.


If you have been sourcing in Legacy but decide to do all your writing in 
Word, then you can copy and paste Sources from the Assigned Sources 
page. Highlight the source citation you want and copy from the Preview 
pane at the bottom of the Assigned Sources screen. Note the radio 
buttons so you can show as it would Print rather than all details.


Hope that helps,
Cathy

Cynthia N. Russell wrote:


Hoping someone will be able to assist me as I begin to write my first
Legacy Ancestor Book. I have been researching for over 30 years and, I
am now ready to get started with all of the sourced information I have
accumlated both throughout the United States and abroad.

My book will have various sections and I would like to begin and
sourcing my patriot's Revolutionary War service. Not sure how to do
footnotes for the passages I want to copy directly. I am a retired
English teacher, so I am not asking how to do footnotes. I want to
know if I should do my written portions in a Word document . . . and
do I do my footnotes at the same time? Or is there a format within
Legacy to accomplish that?

Keeping my fingers crossed to find a patient, kind and knowledgeable
person to assist me in answering my questions. I am not in any hurry
to receive an answer, as I have a lot to accomplish, but, I also know
that beginning correctly will enhance my willingness to continue to
completion. Thanking you in advance for ready my request,

Cynthia D
​.​
Russell
great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co
Tyrone, IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA
great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783
Pennsylvania/USA -1855 Ohio/USA
fergusresearc...@gmail.com 
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Re: [LegacyUG] Book Publishing - Ancestor Book, just beginning

[Leon Chapman]

I would suggest that you try a few of Legacy reports and see if any of those 
can be used.  I would recommend using only about 3 - 4 generations to see what 
the output will look like.

Recommend you try Ancestor Book, Ancestors chart, family group sheet, 
chronology report with various timeline (wars, presidents), family picture tree 
(4 gen), migration report, origins report, scrapbook, and a Descendant Book 
report.

If some of those work for you, then you can combine the reports in the 
Publishing Center and organize your book chapters in the Publisher.  

Legacy does and excellent job of sourcing and Foot Noting as well as location 
and indexing your reports.

You have options when writing a book to either do Ancestors or Descendants.  I 
have found it best to write the book as Descendants of a few keep Ancestors 
alone parents or grandparents lines.  You can so a multiple descendant book 
that works great in the Publisher along with other chapters included.

I have written 5 genealogy books of over 300 pages and published as a hard 
bound cover.  If you are interested, I have an outline of how to publish a book 
using Legacy.

Good luck!


Chap
¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Sent from my iPad
Leon Chapman
chap...@gmail.com
⛳


> On Jul 24, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Cynthia N. Russell  
> wrote:
> 
> Hoping someone will be able to assist me as I begin to write my first Legacy 
> Ancestor Book. I have been researching for over 30 years and, I am now ready 
> to get started with all of the sourced information I have accumlated both 
> throughout the United States and abroad.
> 
> My book will have various sections and I would like to begin and sourcing my 
> patriot's Revolutionary War service. Not sure how to do footnotes for the 
> passages I want to copy directly. I am a retired English teacher, so I am not 
> asking how to do footnotes. I want to know if I should do my written portions 
> in a Word document . . . and do I do my footnotes at the same time? Or is 
> there a format within Legacy to accomplish that?
> 
> Keeping my fingers crossed to find a patient, kind and knowledgeable person 
> to assist me in answering my questions. I am not in any hurry to receive an 
> answer, as I have a lot to accomplish, but, I also know that beginning 
> correctly will enhance my willingness to continue to completion. Thanking you 
> in advance for ready my request,
> 
> Cynthia D​.​ Russell
> great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co Tyrone, 
> IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA
> great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783 Pennsylvania/USA 
> -1855 Ohio/USA
> fergusresearc...@gmail.com
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[LegacyUG] Book Publishing - Ancestor Book, just beginning

[Cynthia N. Russell]

Hoping someone will be able to assist me as I begin to write my first
Legacy Ancestor Book. I have been researching for over 30 years and, I am
now ready to get started with all of the sourced information I have
accumlated both throughout the United States and abroad.

My book will have various sections and I would like to begin and sourcing
my patriot's Revolutionary War service. Not sure how to do footnotes for
the passages I want to copy directly. I am a retired English teacher, so I
am not asking how to do footnotes. I want to know if I should do my written
portions in a Word document . . . and do I do my footnotes at the same
time? Or is there a format within Legacy to accomplish that?

Keeping my fingers crossed to find a patient, kind and knowledgeable person
to assist me in answering my questions. I am not in any hurry to receive an
answer, as I have a lot to accomplish, but, I also know that beginning
correctly will enhance my willingness to continue to completion. Thanking
you in advance for ready my request,

Cynthia D
​.​
Russell
great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co Tyrone,
IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA
great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783
Pennsylvania/USA -1855 Ohio/USA
fergusresearc...@gmail.com
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