Screen shots! Cool. I will start creating them right now. Thanks, all. Marilyn
--- On Fri, 1/8/10, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Basic Format? > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, January 8, 2010, 4:15 AM > Virginia Dunham wrote > >Another alternative approach would be to assemble a > series of "screen > >shots"...I have done this for other reference > points...you could take > >screen shots of a filled out source (I save mine as a > PDF file)...and > >create a folder with the series of screen shots showing > you "what is > >info is required where". > > This is excellent advice! I keep screen shots of > several Source > Citations because I found it difficult to remember exactly > what format > or order I had used for text in field. > > For example, in Credit Line for a Scottish Census citation > I enter > something like "parish 6464/3, ED 21, page 31" but I need > to remember > that what I enter is those 3 pieces of information; where I > use > capitals, where lower case; where I use an abbreviation. > > Another example is where the SW template doesn't exactly > meet > requirements, such as differences in the references for a > GRO Death > Index in fairly recent years. I keep a screen shot of > an Override I > have used so I can be consistent with this type of > Citation. > -- > Jenny M Benson > > > > 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 > > > > 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
