This would be a great subject for an upcoming webinar from Geoff! Sourcing using the Clipboards; using Search & Replace to make corrections; consequences of using different methods on your reports (the latter because I have seen people mention that they do things certain ways because of how it shows up on reports; actually that would be a webinar in itself - how events/sources/etc. affect reports)
Just a suggestion! Loved the death cert webinar :-) Kathy On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 12:49 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to save all of them. Not just 10. And save permanently, too. A > death certificate such as what Geoff showed on Friday can be the source of > many different events for several people. Let's say later on Geoff figured > out the state registration number by using Photoshop to view the negative of > his tif file. Now he wants to make a global change to that citation to add > that previously illegible bit of data. If it were saved as a model he could. > > > ----Original Message----- > From: Sherry/Support <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, May 8, 2011 10:56 am > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] webinar/changing colors once sourced > > 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<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog > (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> > ). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp<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<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/Help.asp> > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog > (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com<http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/> > ). > To unsubscribe: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp<http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp> > -- Kathy Meyer STRESS: when your gut says "NO WAY" and your mouth says "NO PROBLEM" "To reach a goal you have never before attained, you must do things you have never before done." --Richard G. Scott, "Finding the Way Back," Ensign, May 1990, 74 Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein 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
