I would create an event called Note (or whatever you want to call it) and transcrihe or summarize the relevant portion(s) of the e-mail into the Note field of the event. I would definitely NOT transcribe it into the details field of the source citation because (1) I would have scans (I presume you're talking about hard copies of the e-mails, not the original actual electronic e-mail) of the e-mails attached to the source anyway and (2) I wouldn't want the information relegated to footnotes or endnotes in my reports; I would want it in the body of the report.
One could also put it in the General Notes field, but the problem with that is it only allows for one source citation and you may have information from multiple sources that you want to put in Notes. For that reason, I've for the most part abandoned the General Notes and just use an Event for each separate "Note." Connie --- On Fri, 11/12/10, Kathy Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going through a major "clean up" > and trying to digitize a huge > amount of information that has previously been only in file > folders; > for instance, I'm adding census images and details where I > previously > only recorded the source information. > > I've come across some emails that I received from a > gentleman > describing the life of my kids' gr & gr gr > grandmothers. Their > families were neighbors and he was recalling all sorts of > things; very > very interesting. The information is about both women; if > it were > just about one of them, I'd probably just put it into > notes. > > Would that be the best choice? Type it into notes? Or > should I create > a source for the emails and include the transcript there > and just add > the source reference to each woman? I would want the > information to > show up if I decided to make a book or CD for this family. > > Thanks for your help. Kathy > 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
