Hi Angela,
I've never thought about using Sources the way you have to find if
people live near each other.
You could find this out by doing a search on Source Detail - possible
in Legacy 7.
The Master Source templates for US Censuses are set up to have a
Master Source for each County - Far too many Master Sources for me
who likes one per year. Though from memory you can leave out the
location information for the Master Source and have one per year.
Sorry I'm not sure how that flows through in Source Detail as I don't
work with US Censuses.
You can't scroll through the Master Source list and get access to the
detail except by going to the individuals using it.
You can print (to PDF) a Source Citation report and scroll through
that. I'd tag the relevant 1860 Census Master Source or Sources and
print a report on that with full citation details included.
Jumping from a Master Source for every household to one Master Source
for the year is a big jump and you may want to use the Source
Template as designed to have a Master Source for each relevant county
in the US.
Cathy
At 04:34 AM 30/05/2008, you wrote:
Hi Cathy,
Thanks for your response. but I still need help.
Using a census record for example.
In the past (Legacy 6) in the Master source list--
For the source list name I recorded it as 1860 US Census: Washington DC.
FRASER, James
(I could easily find my sources because they are sorted date>location>
alphabetically by last name so even though I have about 30 entries from the
1860 Census in DC I could quickly find the correct family)
In the publication facts I'd have something like.
Year: 1860; Census Place: Washington Ward 7, Washington, District of
Columbia; Roll: M432_57; Page: 120; Image: 243.
but I didn't always enter the information in a uniform manner (thus looking
forward to some help standardizing this part of my sources).
With Legacy 7 I used the Source writer template to enter a census record.
I feel that the SourceWriter Templates are set up more for "lumping" your
sources and thus I'd have one entry for the 1860 US Census.
Following the template my "publication" details are then listed in the
source detail. I also include a transcription of the household information
in the text of the source and an image of the actual census page.
I'm okay through all of that but -- how do you IN THE MASTER SOURCE LIST
view the source details??
At this point I can select the source "1860 census", create a user list and
go to an individual user, open the source and see the details but that
frankly is a heck of a lot of work AND more importantly for me I lose the
ability to have the source entries grouped by location and name
I am hoping that there is some way to scroll thru the master source list
with the option of viewing the source detail without having to go to an
individual.
Even if I go back to my "old" way of entering the Source list name so I
could easily find the individual family entry and have lots of sources (not
a problem for me) I then lose my "publication" details which I used to look
at as I scrolled through my sources to see who for example lived in the same
Enumeration District, etc because these are 'hidden' in the source detail if
I use the new templates.
Thanks for any insight you might be able to provide.
Angela
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