Peter K Robinson wrote: > Hope someone can help. I am currently adding census info to my > Legacy tree by by selecting Events and then adding relevant Dates > (1881, 1891 etc) and then using the information from Findmypasst and > pasting this into the Event Notes field. I can also add the image to > the Event. This all seems fine but when I have a couple of parents > and 8 children (not unusual) I end up having to repeat this process > many times. I can of course cut and paste an event from one person > to another and that saves a considerable amount of time. However > this still means that the same information is in numerous forms in > the database. My question is - is there a facility to input a single > set of info from a census for a household and then simply attach this > to all members of the members of that household. In this way if you > need to make an amendment then you would just change a single entry > and this would then be reflected in the records of all members of the > household. > > Hope this makes sense. Any thoughts welcome. > > Peter Robinson > Peter,
Since you refer to Findmy past, I take it that you are referring to English Censuses. Not that this makes much difference except that there are specific Source writer templates for UK censuses. Nor is it clear whether you have a Census Event or, as I do, only use the censuses as Sources for Residence, Occupation etc. Events. Again this probably does not make much difference. You really need to read up on the Souce Clipboard and Event Clipborad in the Help Files. In Family View, clicking on either the 'paper with a pen' icon, or on an Individual's panel will take you to the Individual Screen and clicking the Add button under Events/Facts enables one to enter a new Event. On the left hand side there is a blue triangle and clicking this takes you to the Source Clipboard where a new Master Source can be selected or the Source Detail/Citation can be entered. At the bottom of the screen is a box which when checked will display this screen for amendment every time you need it, leave unchecked if you will never change the detail. Having entered the detail click Save which will return you to the Event. On the bottom right of this screen there are two little panels the left one is for copying the Event *together with the Source* to the Event Clipboard and the right for pasting the Event and Source to a new individual. So, in the first instance copy the details and then to copy the same Event to a new Individual, choose Add a new Event as normal, but then paste the saved Event with its Source. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ Create your Website with Legacy, see Tutorials at: http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ 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
