Thank you Jenny and Ward for you suggestions. My apologies if any of you felt that your suggestions were a waste of time. Far from it. I very much appreciated them and look forward to further advice and correspondence. By no means did I want to imply that my use of Legacy was correct or better than any suggestion offered. My comments were only to point out some issues I am aware of and my opinion. Please don't mistake my strong opinion for arrogance or dis-respectfulness. My opinion is not necessarily correct. However, I do like to argue my rationale. I am open-minded, regardless of how I may have come across. I probably have not been using Legacy's capabilities and guidelines correctly and mistakenly have emphasized some capabilities over others.
Thanks to Jenny's and Ward's suggestions, I do intend to use the Master Source and now understand that it not as limiting as I thought. I have not used the other note fields within Legacy or footnotes as each of you have pointed out. I probably should have joined the Legacy User Group much earlier. I agree with Ward's comment that relatives are not interested in detail. To be honest, most don't even want a GENCOM FILE or a printout of the family file. Hence, the detail is mostly for me. I try to be concise with the detail. Hence, I will summarize all the residential history in one event, not an event for every US Census or City Directory. I am very interested if any of you have collected a lot of records and plan on writing a book. I have collected almost every Barbieri record available in the town of my ancestors from 1579-1900. Hence, these Barbieri's are close cousins, semi-close cousins, distant cousins and very very distant cousins. My collection includes notary records, Civil and Church records, the 1743 Catasto Onciario and Italian census records, etc. I have also traced almost every Barbieri from this town to the US. It has taken me 10 years and a lot of money. So, my family genealogy objectives have changed over time. It now has become almost a "one place study". I continue to research today and it seems never-ending since there are always a few records and brick walls to scale. I will be writing a book, starting later this year, about the Barbieri's from Cerreto Sannita, Italy. This book will combine social history and family history. It will read more like a narrative but include charts, graphs, trees etc. This is a big under-taking. It will become my Legacy (no pun intended). Lol. Any suggestions or questions are welcomed. Thank you again Jenny and Ward for your suggestions. Regards, Mike Barberi 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: Ward Walker <wnkwal...@rogers.com> To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:46:03 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing Michael, I agree with both of Jenny's posts and would like to point out a couple more things. What you see 'at a glance' while running Legacy is not the only consideration. If you want to send a report (that includes events) to a relative about some part of the family, I think that your approach would look rather bloated with details. I find that relatives with a casual interest have little patient for plowing through long reports. To me, the event details should concisely summarize the gist of the event (unless telling a good story). Then the report can (optionally) contain footnotes or endnotes which describe the sources. The interested reader can follow up with you if they really care about exactly which facts were in a particular source. Within Legacy, you can see the answer to such questions with very few clicks, especially by using methods such as Jenny suggested. A picture of a source document is usually only of interest to the researcher(s) as a backup to the textual source information. If it is a special document of general interest, then you could add it to an event, but it usually won't display at a readable scale in reports. For conflicting evidence that calls into question a fact that appears in a report (or on the main Family view), I suggest bringing that up front by adding a note -- either in the Research Notes for the individual, the Marriage Notes, or an event note. For example, a research note could state something like "the various censuses disagree on Jane Doe's place of birth, some placing it in NY, PA, or OH". In the actual birth place field, you could leave it blank or you could put the location that you sense is most likely. (I agree that if you choose to create a residence event for every census, then this would be redundant for the _careful_ reader.) Ward ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny M Benson" <ge...@cedarbank.me.uk> To: <LegacyUserGroup@LegacyFamilyTree.com> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sourcing michael barberi wrote > 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. You can always use the Comment field in Source Details to give as much information about the Source as you wish and to specify which particular "part" of the Event that Source relates to. I often put something like "relates to place of Birth only" in the Comment field. However, I am now somewhat at a loss as to the reason for your original post. You asked "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?" and a couple of us have replied "yes, you should" but you now seem to be saying you are determined to carry on using Events! Well, that's fine - you can carry on using Legacy any way you wish, many of us have lots of different ways of adapting the software to our own needs/preferences, but it does appear to mean we have rather wasted our time trying to answer your question. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Onlinetechnical 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 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
