Hi Anne, Well you found an option in Legacy that I didn't know existed. options for non-sources. That doesn't happen very often ;-)
It sounds like you'll have to do them one by one though it may be easier if you used the copy to general notes option in the non-sources options and did it from there so you weren't constantly going back to the assigned sources page - but what is easier depends on whether you have notes for these people. The census and military sources would remain sources for the name. I don't think a move or copy to the event notes works unless the source is already attached to that event. I'd be using Show List for the Master Source and then tagging those that use it and working through the tagged group. This can be done most efficiently EITHER by working in a Search list based on the tag (or the master source) OR by using the Individual Tag box at the bottom right of the screen, setting this to the right tag number and using the arrows to scroll from one person to the next. The events will still need a source. Perhaps these are in sources because the program you were previously using didn't have a place for specific events - or perhaps in those days you just saw a census as a source as some still do - in which case you'd enter at least a residence event with the census as the source so that it shows in a person's timeline/chronology. I enter the census as an event as well as a source as the residence may be the same for a number of different censuses and also have a number of other sources. I want to be able to look at the Event list and see very easily whether I've found someone in every relevant census. To do this fully is a huge job, especially if you haven't transcribed the census data or included the actual census reference - but you may at least in the first instant be happy without that much detail. I put a transcript in the head of household event notes as well as the Source Detail Text. I'm in the process of updating some of my census sources as when I found them I didn't really understand the reference - and generally the information was coming from a transcript rather than the image. Note that copying the source to either event notes or general notes only takes the parts checked for printing. So if source detail text and comments aren't checked, they're not copied. Sorry it could be a long job but tagging helps you to do it in manageable bits or when you feel like it as you untag each person when you've processed them. If you use the tag box at the bottom right to cycle through the people, you may want to go to Options - Customise 12.5 and turn off the message telling you that you're at the end (or beginning) of a tag list and need to go to the beginning (or end). Cathy mi...@juno.com wrote: > > Hi Cathy, Thanks for replying. > > I believe I need to make new specific events on each person and move > the census (and other things) from sources for that person to the new > events. > > When these were originally input, about 35-40 years ago, there wasn't > a distinction between the source and its event. (These records are all > under "name" rather the "unspecified" in the Assigned Sources, I don't > know why.) > The ged.coms, as I transferred from program to program through the > years, finally ended up with this information in sources here in > Legacy. My "source" is just "1850 Census" for example. Then I put the > place in the details. I never recorded where I found the censuses. > Each entry is for one person only, as I haven't yet decided to "share" > with each family member listed, I only have it on the head. > So, I have 4 or 5 census entries and once in a while a military, for > pretty much each person, several thousand, and they all show in > footnotes on reports, instead of in the body of the report where I do > want the whole record. > > Nothing was transferred to events by the ged.coms. My entries for > birth, death,& marriage certificates, documents, newspaper articles, > etc are all in sources, which is OK, but never in events. I believe > I'll have to create events for at least some of these, to get the info > to print elegantly in reports, but I thought I'd start with the census > records as they take up so much space. > > 2. I mean I went to master source list>options>options for > non-sources>copy to: events or notes. But I guess I would already need > an event set up for it to copy to. Thus the hand work. > > Thanks for the clipboard idea. I've never used the clipboard before, > so this will give me the impetus to figure that tool out. It sounds > like it can save me time, even doing them one by one. > > Well, many of my census entries do show a source, that is I once > entered "see census file" because even all those years ago I always > took a photocopy of each census page and have a physical file of > copies for each family. Now-a-days my new copies are jpg's on the > computer, so there are the 2 "sources", if that makes any difference. > > Thank you for your thoughts on my dilemma. > Anne > > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
