Ah, I understood when you said 'that's exactly what I do' you were referring to my idea of using custom events for stories, but I now understand you are saying you lump stories in an Individual's Notes section. In that case I get it. And, I suppose it should be no surprise that this topic comes around to splitters (custom events) vs lumpers (Individual Notes) again.
Cheers, On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> wrote: > James Cook wrote >>Jenny - I don't understand "because one might have numerous notes, each >>with a different Source, I indicate briefly alongside the note which >>one is relevant" means. Which one *what* is relevant? Isn't that what >>the superscript source citations numbers do, tell you which source is >>relevant? > > Notes is treated as one field so if you enter several separate > paragraphs of information and several separate Sources, in a Report your > Notes will appear as if they were one "event" with several Sources. > > For example, my Notes might read "Jane was first married to Joe Bloggs > who died in 1898." My Sources will be a record of the marriage and a > record of the death. That's fine. > > But suppose I then add more notes: "Jane fell down the stairs on her > 40th birthday. // He niece described Jane as a "very loving but strict > auntie.//Jane often reminisced about visiting an orphanage." The Source > for fall might be an interview with her daughter, the Source for her > being loving might be a letter from the niece and the reminiscence of > the orphanage might be my own remembrance, so 5 separate sources in all > but not all applying to all contents of Notes. > > So I would add something lie [FreeBMD] after the first entry, [Mary > Jones] after the next and so on. That way, someone who looks at my file > can see exactly which Source matches which individual Note. > -- > 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
