Hi Connie :) Great to meet you too! Let me try to answer some of your questions. (I won't keep the original post below, just to keep things trimmed up a bit)
I do use the icon buttons in family view, events and source clipboards, anything that will help as a shortcut :). I agree that Legacy does have some great features, it just gets overwhelming for me to have lots of data to input and know that it will take so long to enter it all. I JUST received the 2009 edition of Evidence Explained last night (I love getting the mail! YEAH!) so I am eager to check my work and fix any problems with my sources. Brian from support has offered a suggestion regarding the "/i" characters that were showing up, so I will try that and see how it works. :) I love the Pedigree tab too, I just wish I could see it along with my family view at the same time :) I would not want it to be eliminated, no way! I like the idea of an index view along the side for the ease of bringing up an individual in the current view (whether it is pedigree or family). For example, if your current position is on yourself in your family tree, and you want to view a different person that is not immediately connected, the current way is to click on the index tab or name index, find the individual, and there they are. But if the index were along the side (maybe with an option to close/widen too), it would be much easier just to double click on their name from the index list and viola, they are now in the family view. I guess whether or not I am a "source lumper" or "source splitter" depends on the source. I recently found a book detailing the baptisms of various ancestors on different pages. So I made a main source entry for the book and then used the source clipboard to make individual citations for each individual and page. However, I made an error in the "detail" on more than one of the citations and since the source citation "detail" itself was attached to a person's name, birth, baptism and parents names, not to mention the citations connected to the parents for the entry, I had to create a new individual source citation and delete the old ones with the error in the detail, this took a long time. It would have been much easier to see the individual source citation, change the detail and have it reflect on the other facts that same citation was attached to. Much the same way the main source updates the citations attached when you make a change to the text or source itself. My ultimate goal is to be able to fix the citation detail (text, media, etc.) on an individual source citation and have it reflect on all those who are also using that same exact individual source. My media example is perfect. Say that you make a main source entry. Next you use the Source Clipboard to create 12 individual citations (if it is a book, much like the one I found, each person was on a different page) from that main entry and attach each one to 3-4 facts/events for 12 people. Then, a few weeks later you acquire images or more facts about that individual source that you want to add to the detail for each one. How do you go about attaching that media to each individual source citation and the fact/events it is connected to already? (remember this is not a main source, but an individual source entry that is duplicated numerous times for different individuals). How would you go about changing the differing detail for each citation? If I use just the main source and attach it to an individual, I don't have any issues changing detail or seeing who it is attached to by using the "show list of assigned sources", it is only when I use the individual source citations with differing details that it becomes difficult to keep track of my data. Angelique Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
