James Cook wrote >I have a marriage document (both the license and certificate >all-in-one). As a newbie, I've spent a few hours trying to figure out >the best way to enter the information. I went searching through the >archives to see if I could find various recipes you all use with maybe >the pros and cons. I'm not finding anything like that. I'm very >interested to learn how practically to use Legacy. So, if you wouldn't >mind sharing your recipes, pointing me to related blog(s), or a link or >search terms into the archives that would be great.
I haven't come across such a document before, so I can't speak from actual experience, but I think I might source this as if it was two separate documents - the Licence and the Certificate. There are SourceWriter templates for both types of document. I am presuming you mean template when you refer to "recipes" and if you are very new to Sourcing you might find the SourceWriter templates easier to use than Basic Format. > >The sorts of things I'm wondering about include: >- I've got the doc scanned as a jpg. Although a pic format, I assume I >only attach as a file, but to what? As your document is saved as a .Jpg I would attach it as a picture, using the Multimedia tab on the Source Details screen. >- License part is signed by county judge - where does this fact go? >- Certificate includes the minister - where does this fact go? >- Two witnesses are included (not my surnames afaik) - where do these >go? If you use the SW templates you will be guided as to what to include and where to include it. >I'm just not sure what source(s) and/or event(s) or both these items >should be included on, and in which fields. Note, text, comments, >etc??? >What I've done: I added "signed by county judge" to the notes section >of the Marriage License event. This will print as part of a report (at >least FGS). I'd like to add a "joined in marriage by rev." too, but >adding this to notes on a detail source citation only prints in the >footnotes, not in the content of the reports. Information that they were married by Licence, about the officiating minister and witnesses I include in the Marriage Notes. Marriage Notes will print in Reports if you choose to have them do so. I would use your combined document as a Source (or 2 Sources) for both the Marriage Notes and the Marriage itself. To me, details such as "joined in marriage by rev." relate to the Marriage itself, not to the document. I would use Source Comments only to enter information specifically about the nature of the Source - for example "photocopy of original held by X" or "dubious about the validity of this Source as X'z memory is known to be unreliable." I use Source Text to quote actual text from the Source document - but don't always use it. Suppose the Source document is a long Report from another researcher: I will copy the pertinent few lines to Source Text but attach the document as a file. If the Source document is a Census, most of the information is included in the Event fields so I attach the image as a picture and do not use Source Text. -- 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
