Thanks Ward, and I just sent a note stating the versatility of the program,
which you gave examples of.
Rich in LA CA
- Original Message
From: wnkwal...@rogers.com wnkwal...@rogers.com
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Wed, December 16, 2009 12:42:35 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Notes and Source Details
Welcome, Rick.
I think the key is to be thinking about the potential reports that you will
generate from the family file, not just about what you, the user of Legacy,
will see when browsing the family file. Info in event notes will be printed
on various types of reports (unless that option is de-selected on the report
settings). Source detail text is there as a backup for you and any
researchers that have access to your digital data. True, you can choose to
display source detail text with the source citation on reports (footnotes,
etc.), but that is not the default.
Specifically for censuses, there have been discussions about this on the
LUG. Some people even put census details in both places, plus images of the
document. My preference is to ensure that the source details capture
everything that is relevant and in a reasonably verbatum manner, with any
interpretations only in the Comments field. Then in the event notes I put a
more condensed, readable summary of the event, ever sensitive to the
impatient reader of a wordy report. (This applies to events like a census
event. I wouldn't normally add any census-related notes to a birth event,
for example, when citing the census as a source for the birth.)
Ward
- Original Message -
From: 1eagle...@bellsouth.net
To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:45 PM
Subject: [LegacyUG] Notes and Source Details
I am new to Legacy and its notes and sources. So I have been watching the
training videos.
In entering Sources, Geoff created a Master Source for a birth date and then
added text to the
Source Details (transcribed from the book). Then attached the source to to
birth date.
Then in adding an event, a census, Goeff went to the Master Source Clipboard
and created a
Master Source, but did not transcribe any text in to the source detail.
Then added the event, the
Census. Then he transcribed the census info into the notes of the Event,
and attached the Source.
So this source has the notes in the event section and not in the Source
Details. Although it can
can be added there as well.
So the question is, is there a reason to put the transcribed the text of
your findings into the Source Details
and not the notes in one case. And then in another event put the text in
the notes and not in the
Sources Details. Or should it be in both? Or does it even mater?
Rick Merrill
Athens AL
The new guy on the block who is trying to learn
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