Jenny: You are probably right. However, I find the source field very limiting. You can put in the source and some details. However, if you have multiple sources, some conflicting evidence, information that you believe you correctly analyzed and have reached a solid conclusion about, the Events/Facts is easier to use. Additionally, when you pull up an individuals' file, you can see all important information about the person "at-a-glance". If I did not put the source of the information in the Events/Facts notes, it would be incomplete and not clear where, how or why certains facts were determined or where I got them from. Of course, you can "click" on the source icon linked to the Event/Facts note, but all you get is the source information and the detail, not anything else to explain things. If you have multiple sources for each Event/Facts, it become highly complex. Hence, the information contained in all my Event/Fact notes for each individual is the same as what you would put in the Master Source, but much more information that can be understood and readily seen without searching though all the formal Master Sources. Perhaps I should use both, but it seems like I am duplicating information.
I could be confused as to how to use Legacy, but this is an issue I recognize at the present time. I welcome your valuable experience and additional insight. Mike In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus autem caritas. In essentials unity, in doubtful things liberty, but in all things love. St. Augustine (A.D. 354 - 430) ________________________________ From: Jenny M Benson <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:08:51 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing michael barberi wrote > Am I using the Events/Facts capability correctly. I would say that you are not. > Should I be using the Master Source or New Source capability to document all > information such as birth, marriage, death, regardless if I have the actual > record or not? The Events/Facts fields of Legacy are for recording events in an individual's life and information about the individual. The Source fields are for recording how you came by the information that you have enter in Events/Facts. Where you have an original piece of "evidence" or a photograph of it, your Source is more reliable than those where you don't have direct evidence. You can use the Surety Level field to record how valid you think the evidence is. Someone being born in Anytown in 1800 is fact. If you know that because you have a photocopy of the Parish Register, the Parish Register is the Source and you can attach your photocopy to the Source Detail. If you have seen the Parish Register or a photocopy of it, it is still a Source and just as reliable but you have no picture to attach; you could, though, enter the wording in the Text field of the Source Detail. If you have only see a transcription of that Parish Register, the transcription is your Source but is somewhat less reliable. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
