*Gail,
That sounds like a real time saver. Goeff says they have spent a lot of
programming time on improving source entry. Let's see if Ver. 7 has
anything like it. Thanks.
Hugh Busey*
On Dec 6, 2007 3:14 PM, Gail Nestor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Legacy Users and Support Team,
>
> I have an idea for sourcing that would make my life a whole lot easier
> if we could implement it. I'll try to explain it using an example.
>
> Let's say you have an existing master source and you want to add
> source detail to it. It would be great if you could access a dropdown
> box that showed you all the other source detail entries already
> connected to that master source.
>
> Master Source: Cemetery A (along with all the relevant master source
> details: the URL, city and state, etc)
>
> When you click on the master source, you would be presented with any
> existing source details already used elsewhere. For example:
> Source detail options:
> tombstone entry for John Doe (with all other details such as accessed
> date, transcription, etc.)
> tombstone entry for Jane Doe
> tombstone photograph for Ralph Doe
>
> You could then just click one of the available choices and finally
> attach that where it needs to be (to a person, fact, or event).
>
> Often, a tombstone transcription needs to be attached in three places
> (name, birth date, death date) for each person. It is so wasteful to
> have the exact same master source and source detail combination in the
> database as three separate entries for a single person. It would be
> much more efficient (and easier to find and correct mistakes) to have
> a single source (master plus detail) linked in three (or more places)
> to various people and/or facts and/or events.
>
> For example, there would be one instance of "Cemetery A, tombstone
> entry for John Doe" and it would be linked three times to various
> places. This is especially important for those millions of census
> entries that have to be linked to every member of the household. I
> finally stopped linking them to several places and instead just linked
> them to the one census event for each person. That has saved a lot of
> space considering I have literally thousands on individual census
> entries.
>
> I may be asking for the impossible, but this linking concept could
> sure prove handy!
>
> --
> Gail Rich Nestor
> Smyrna, Georgia
> www.roots2buds.net
>
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