Peter, Here is an option:
Go to "View" on the toolbar and you will see an entry for: "Master Lists" > "Source", choose "Source" From here you can "Add" a new source (which in your case would be a particular census). After creating the new source, you can choose one of two things: 1. Enter all of your relevant text from the source here with an image etc. and follow the next steps below OR 2. Choose NOT to enter your text or images here, but instead enter them into the "Details" for a source (which pops up later) If you choose to do the first option (1), then enter all of the relevant text here, add your image and close the master source list and then go to "Tools" on the toolbar and choose "Source Clipboard" and proceed to select the master source you just created from the list. Since the text and image of the source is already entered into the "Main" source entry, you can skip adding it in the details part when you select it from the list here. Next I would make a handwritten list of those individuals and facts/events I want connected to the source, and find those people to attach them (everyone has different ways of the finding). There is a button (square with a solid line) which you click on when you are ready to attach whatever is on the "Source Clipboard" to an individual or fact/event. If you choose the second option(2) and want to enter text and image into the "Details" field for a source, then after creating the source, close the master source list and go to the "Source Clipboard" and you will have the chance to input the text and image there. From there, you just follow the same steps to attaching it to the individuals and events/facts that you want. An advantage to entering text and images into the main portion of a source is not having to edit EACH "Detail" section if you find a mistake later on, any text edited in the master source list will change for any individuals attached to it. A drawback to entering text and images into the main source list field is when you find others on a different census image for the same city, county etc. When this happens, only ONE image shows up as the "preferred" image for the source. So, in these instances, using option (2) above and entering text and image into the details section is better, but if you need to go back and edit any text, it is more difficult to do so because you have to locate all of the individual citations with the detail you want to change. I realize it is a bummer that we cannot edit text easier after entering it into the details field of a source, but this seems to be the best way to attach one document/source to numerous individuals. If I have a book or some other source that I know I will only have attached to a few people, I enter the text and add any images directly into the main source fields when the new source is created. But if I have a document like a census, where I might find others later on in the same area, I usually use option (2) above and create the source, then add the text and images to the "details" field and then attach it to whoever I need it attached to. It takes time to attach everyone, even using the Source Clipboard and Event Clipboard but it is better than entering text and image for each person on the document. Hope this is helpful :) Angelique 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 > 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
