I've been convinced from the beginning that the source conversion feature was unworkable. Considering how unique each person does their sources I fail to see any way all those variations can be taken into account and rendered into one "standard" source.
--- On Fri, 12/12/08, JLB <[email protected]> wrote: > From: JLB <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] newbie to source writer > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:13 PM > Will there ever be a Source Converter, or has that idea been > abandoned? > ----- > JL > JLog - simple computer technology for genealogists > http://www.jgen.ws/jlog > > Jenny M Benson wrote: > > > > Randolph Clark wrote > >> When you try to merge the old-style with the > new-style don't you get the message that they're > incompatible? > > > > Oh beggar and blow! You wicked programmers! I just > tried it now and discovered you are right. That's a new > feature of the latest upgrade. > > > > I've converted numerous of my old-style Sources > that way up to now and had no problems. I was working on > completing the updating of Source Details on the ones > I'd already converting before considering converting any > more. > > > > What a retrograde step! This is the first time > I've found something about Legacy I really, really > don't like. Presumably there is some method in the > madness, so I'd be interested to know what *benefit* > there is in the latest upgrade that makes it necessary to > eliminate this previous possibility. > > > > Oh, I'm really depressed now. > > > > > *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and > more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp *** Holiday discounts on Legacy 7.0, add-ons, books, and more. Visit http://tinyurl.com/65rpbt. *** Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
