On 26/12/2013 16:16, lio . wrote:
> 1. When you source a document, where do you put the transcription - in
> the Master Text, or in the Detail Text?
Being a lumper (which is actually correct practice for a relational
database, although I don't always carry it to the full extent which I
should) I p
I think that one advantage of shared events comes from the fact that you
only have one copy of each piece of citation data. As far as I can tell
the Legacy database is not normalized in the sense that it is easily
possible to take, for example, a citation and copy rather than link it
into several p
n,
leo
> From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lumping vs. Splitting
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:57:02 +
>
> On 26/12/2013 16:16, lio . wrote:
> > 1. When you source a document, where do you put the transcription - i
back and create separate events for key people.
Thanks (I'm mostly talking out loud I guess).
Leo
> From: davidnew...@drdavid.plus.com
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lumping vs. Splitting
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 11:52:37 +
>
> I think that one
ly plus of Shared Events
>that it would be faster?
>
>Thanks again for your direction,
>
>leo
>
> > From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
> > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lumping vs. Splitting
> > Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:57:02 +
&
I'm glad this question came up, was wondering myself.
I am a lumper, the way I record a record of anything, say a census is
I create a census event and in the event notes,
I transcribe the details of the family and individual that's found on
the page.
In the master source, I enter the details of wh
On 09/01/2014 23:41, lio . wrote:
>
> *I* transcribe the complete document and copy to the Master Text. I then
> copy pertinent parts of the Master Text to the Detail Text depending on
> what I want to prove. (VERY time consuming, but I liked that if forced
> me to analyze the document).
>
> *You*
(and other sourcing books) are really
delivered from the perspective of a Lumper, so the examples make more sense for
me too.
Thanks for your reply.
L
> From: genea...@gmail.com
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Lumping vs. Splitting
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan
Jenny:
Thanks very much for your example. I've printed it off, and have filed it in my
"how to" Legacy folder.
L
> From: ge...@cedarbank.me.uk
> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Lumping vs. Splitting
> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 09:29:10 +0
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