Scott, You raise questions with which I've long struggled. The best answer I can give is "it depends." I think the first question you need to answer for yourself is:
Am I using Legacy to store all my research, or is my goal to use it primarily to store my conclusions and to produce computer-generated genealogies? If your purpose is the first, you will want to enter everything. If the latter, you may want to enter just the "best" sources. If you want to do both, you will want to enter everything, but make use of the more advanced features like printing only those sources with a surety of X or more. For the most part, I have made the decision that I will use Legacy to store everything on only a few direct line ancestors for whom I'm doing in-depth study. Everyone else gets the "best source" treatment. (I might make a different decision if I didn't already have a room full of paper sources for research I did 20+ years ago). So, for example, on the "in-depth ancestors," I will enter every census as an event, and attach the source citation for those census records to other relevant fields like birth dates. However, for the majority of people in my database (especially those who are not direct line ancestors, e.g. the siblings of my ancestors and their children), I enter the "best" or "most complete" source (say the 1900 census, or a death certificate) for their birth date, with a comment that the 1850 census age is consistent with the 1900 birth date. Connie 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
