Thanks CE... I totally agree. There are many times I will have multiple sources for the same information.....
I will on revert back to my old version. It doesn't seem right to tell me to start doing it a different way, after I have put so much effort into my database. I also want the ability to do a search on a particular source and pull all individuals it applies to. -----Original Message----- From: CE Wood [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 & Sources Much of my work is in the Medieval era. The sources for many events and people are a myriad of well-recognized sources, such as Complete Peerage, Alumni Cantabringienses, Calendar Rolls, La Préhistoire des Capétiens, Les Ancêtres de Charlemagne, Ancestral Roots, et alia. I spend inordinate amounts of time on each item that I source switching back and forth to enter them, sometimes as many as 8 different sources. Multiplied by the events sourced, that is a major frustration. When I could enter multiple sources at one time, it was a blessing! If all you have is one source for an event, fine. But there are many of us with this same problem. CE -----Original Message----- From: Jan Roberts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 & Sources Hardly a useful feature! I can think of very few instances where I would have two different sources for the same piece of information that related to more than one individual at a time - so why would I need those particular sources linked together for repeat use? What I do often have is need for one Master Source, such as a State Birth Record Index but with different details for each person being researched. So I add that particular Master Source to the clipboard, find each person in the family, source the birth details and probably the name using the clipboard, but change the details so I record the specific information for that person. I might also have the Death Record Index on the clipboard as a saved source. When I've finished with the birth index for that particular family I swap to the saved death index and go through the process again for each person in that family, changing details as required. If I come back to the task tomorrow or next week, my sources are still available to me from the clipboard. The example that Joyce Yowler gave of adding three sources for the same information, and hence needing to add all three at once, seems overkill to me - Quote: So the sources would be.... 1. The death certificate: Death Certificate: Abersold, Martha Jane (Gump) (1896-1949) 2. The source that provided the image: Provided by: WV Div. of Culture & History 3. The person that actually saw and transcribed the image: Transcribed by: Joyce Schaefer Yowler End Quote. I would have a Death Certificate as Master Source, with person's name in Details and her sources 2 & 3 as Detail Text / Comments. Even using Joyce's example, I wonder how often she would need to use that exact set of sources more than once, so why have them on a clipboard at all. If she wanted to use the death certificate as source for say birth place and date of death then put the (combined) source onto the clipboard and you can use it as many times as you want before changing it. Cheers Jan -----Original Message----- From: CE Wood [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 12 February 2010 5:13 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 & Sources Why ever did you remove such a useful option? CE -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Legacy 7.4 & Sources Joyce, If you mean the ability to copy multiple sources using the clipboard that does not exist in Legacy 7.0. In Legacy 6.0 the clipboard could hold up to 5 sources at one time and all were assigned when you pasted the clipboard to an event. That multiple source clipboard was replaced with a single source clipboard in 7.0. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com 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 No virus found in this incoming message. 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