Did you try Search > Search and Replace? All the source fields can be changed through that feature.
The Source Clipboard can be saved. Click on the "Save a Clipboard" button at the bottom of the Source Clipboard Window. You can save up to 10 clipboards. Full instructions are in the Help file for Source Clipboard. Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:20 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a question about sourcing too. Would you ever create a completely > separate source for a census entry, death record, etc. that you know is > going to be a source for multiple people and fields? Sometimes I find that > I have not transcribed something properly (handwriting, poor scan, whatever) > and then I have to go back to each person and field that I used that source > for and make the corrections one at a time. Or is there a faster way to do > that? I'm thinking maybe I should create a brand new source for each entry > but then I'd end up with thousands of sources.... > > > This is probably one of the unresolvable issues of Legacy. Academic honesty > would require that you cite to everything. However, very few of us want to > turn a hobby into a job. I wish that Legacy would have developed a method to > save the source clipboard entries permanently as model citations. Then if > changes are needed you could change the model and have every citation > updated. > > Anyhow, I just submitted a suggestion to Legacy. > > Happy Mother's Day all. Now it's time to make pancakes. > > Jack > 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
