Thank you, Jenny. I've taken your advice about using the "online images" option.
Now I have a followup question for anyone: In the "Step 3. Add the Source Detail Box," what should I put in the "Credit Line" line? Is that where I put the name of the photographer (for the online image), if known? Oh, and in the Assigned Sources box, what does the V with the tick boxes under it stand for? And just now I tried to use the same source to verify a different life event. How do I vary the Detail Text without altering the basic source citation? I didn’t want that to happen, so I told Legacy to save it as a separate source, and now I have the Detail Text reading the same as the Master Text for the second life event, instead of just the relevant quotations I chose. Doing something wrong . . . what? Thanks again, to all. Yours, Kathy Horstman -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 5:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: Determining and Defining Types of Sources On 09/05/2011 22:46, Kathy Horstman wrote: > I've recently started using Legacy 7.5 Deluxe Edition. I chose it in great > part because of the SourceWriter documentation facility. But I have some > questions about how to use it, especially in regard to information I find > online. > > > > If I find a facsimile of a document on the Internet, may I cite it directly > as my source, using one of SourceWriters source types? How does the website > come into it-it wouldn't exactly be the repository, would it, if the > original document were physically available somewhere? > When you are selecting the SourceWriter template, one of the options will be for "online images" and their will be fields for entering the website information. > > > Suppose I accept data supplied by some website creator, on the grounds of a > particular record or source he or she cited. What's the best way in Legacy > to make note of my source's source? (If I simply cite the website, as I > have thus far, I lose track of why I believed the data in the first place). There are 2 possible options here. All Master Sources and all Source Details have a Comments field, so you can use one of those (whichever is appropriate) to enter the information about the original source. Some templates will produce a field in the Source Detail named Citation in which you name the Source being cited by the website creator. > > > > How about online transcriptions of documents? What about typewritten > transcriptions? They're not the originals, true (and I know how > transcribers can err), but they're better sources, aren't they, than someone > simply asserting, "Obed Edom Jr. died in 1755"? I'd like to know how to use > Legacy to cite them in the proper manner. See my first paragraph, except in this instance you will be selecting "online databse" rather than "online images." -- Jenny M Benson 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 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
