Paula, That is a good approach and quite effective; in my local genealogy
classes I emphasize that it is not so important how you document, but
that you do and the important thing is for someone else to find the
source and citation, using your notes. I may not previously mention, but
I am the "fam
Ward, We are in agreement that date/place type information should be in
the source detail. When I imported my FTM GEDCOM, the source detail went
to Legacy's text field. To correct this on a broad field would require
programing effort and generally programers are not genealogist. I was a
programin
ield, though, and checking the box to include that.
> So, maybe I am no help. I don't do footnotes, just endnotes.
> (and maybe our subject has changed?)
>
> --Paula in Texas
>
> -
>
> From: gambol
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Sent: Mon, February 13, 2012 6:
noll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis
Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind
Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner
Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan
Weller Williams
From: gambol
To: LegacyUserGroup@
Ward, Yes this is similar. Your comments led me to the Options >
Customize > Source tab > Source Detail Defaults. I had the first three
boxes checked and then discovered the Reset buttons cycle through each
source and source text and list them as one line in the reports. This
is exactly what I
Laura, Yes, The information is carried forward from FTM to Legacy and
appears in the . It seems that the check boxes, Assigned Sources> Edit
Detail> Tag/Comments, are not auto populated. In my example only the
source name appears in the narrative report. If the check boxes are
selected, the source
at a GEDCOM does not recognise the layout – it is the same with
> the Legacy version. I suspect that the best you can hope for is some
> sort of Basic Sourcing.
>
> Maybe there is someone who has transferred similar files who can
> advise you, but I cannot think of an easy way ro
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