Hi Kathy, > I have several 'descendency charts' or 'pedigree charts' that other > people have sent to me to show the research that they have done. It's > great because I can go through and check my info against theirs and we > can work together to find the most accurate information. > Where do we store that in the Legacy file though? It sure would be > nice to have some sort of 'general' info tab to store multimedia for > each famiily line where you could store these sorts of things and > census pages that relate to the entire family. Or am I missing > something? What do you do with these sorts of digital files when they > have information on hundreds of people?
In Legacy, when you enter an item of data from a chart sent to you by someone else, you refer to that document in your source - you don't store it "in" Legacy, unless you attach it, which I wouldn't normally do (but I know others do, and both choices are fine). You should have some sort of filing system on your computer's hard drive, where you can find documents, pictures, etc of interest to you reasonably easily. Nothing to do with Legacy. My filing system for my genealogy "stuff" includes a folder called Correspondence, where I file any electronic copies of correspondence that I refer to in my database. If a chart came attached to an email, I'd save the whole email as a discrete file in the Correspondence folder, with the date and name of the person who sent it to me. I might also save the chart separately, if I wanted to refer to it frequently (as I'd get pretty annoyed having to open the email to open the chart if I was doing it often). Within that Correspondence folder I have further folders also called Correspondence, but with a surname following it, such as Correspondence - Howard. In that folder will be the correspondence relating to that branch of the family, making it quicker and easier to locate a specific item from the hundreds of files I've stored over the years. Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
