Lisa, fair warning, it's a lot like the BORG around here - "Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated!"
I, like you, do not like that the only option we are given for Source Details is to paste separate copies all around to every individual/event. I did not grasp this point at first, and it caused a great deal of clean up on my party - This copy behavior of Source Details in Legacy is not only true from person to person, but from event to event on the same person. What that means in practical user of Legacy terms is you better get your data entry right the first time, cause updates later, once it's been pasted around, is a royal pain in the hiney! Maybe an example will help clarify what I'm trying to point out here: Say you've used a birth certificate as the source for name, birth, and relationship to parents, and you've used the Source Clipboard to paste that source into each of the four events. If you run a report, all four places might reference source #3. Ok, all is good so far. Now you want to edit something in the Source Details about the relationship to the parents, you select the entry on the Father, and edit them. Run your report again, and only Father has changed. Now name, birth, and mother relationship still reference source #3, but father references source #7. I guess this is why theres's even an need for a constant churn on the lumping vs splitting idea. If you want to be able to edit a source, but also have your edits be reflected on every person/event attached to that source, your only option is to use Master Sources for entering your data and leave Source Details alone. (I didn't say it was a great option!) I want to make it clear that I like Source Writer, and find it very helpful. It would just be so much better if we had the option to *attach* Source Details to people/events in addition to only the *copy/paste* option we are limited to currently. This is a win-win for everybody. People like me who think one birth certificate is one source are happy, and those that thing one birth certificate is 42 sources are happy too. Re: Source Clipboard > Apr 13, 2010 03:08:52 AM, [email protected] wrote: > ... > If you decide to retype the details instead > of copying, you run the <em>risk</em> of creating a new source detail and > will see > duplicates in your reports. Even the difference in typing p12 vs p 12 in the > detail will create a duplicate citation. >... > Kirsten 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
