Kathy, For the source credit line you can see an example of what to put in there if you put your mouse over the word “Credit Line” ( if you forget what goes in a particular field this will work for other fields too)
The V means that the source was verified (ie you looked at the source and verified that what you sourced was in that source). To reuse the same master source but use different detail be sure to use the Source Clipboard and make sure the box “Prompt for Detail” is checked that way when you apply the source to an event the last citation will pop up and then you can change the source detail. hope this helps, Russ Strong From: Kathy Horstman Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 7:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] SourceWriter: Determining and Defining Types of Sources 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). 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