Bill, Won’t Search and Replace for Source Citations do the job for you?
Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ From: William Boswell Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 2:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Adding text details to a source/citation I must be the extreme because I’ve gone back to converting all Details to Sources especially for the census. I’m only doing this because if a change has to be made for a Detail that others are using, each one has to be changed as well. If I convert it to a Source, then I only have to make the one change and it updates the rest of them. I wish Legacy would do this for Details. In FTM, it was much easier to update all Source Citations in one place. In Legacy I have to copy it to the clipboard and paste for each person. Then I have to do a report to find all of the people who share that detail and it is very time consuming since there is no central place to view all persons linked to that Detail and make the change one time. I hate making sources for each census record for each family because it clutters up the list and makes it too long, but there doesn’t seem to be a better way to do it. Bill Boswell From: Bruce Jones [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Adding text details to a source/citation Here is how I understand it, using two death certificates (Bill & Bob) from the same state as an example: An extreme Lumper will create two Master Sources, one for Bill and a second for Bob The text from Bill's death certificate goes into Bill's Master Source Text. The text from Bob's death certificate goes into Bob's Master Source Text. There will not be anything in the Detail Source Text field for either one (would there even be a Source Detail?). An extreme Splitter will create one Master Source for all death certificates from that state (or country). The text from Bill's death certificate goes into Bill's Source Detail Text. The text from Bob's death certificate goes into Bob's Source Detail Text. The Master Source Text will only contain information that is common to ALL death certificates from that state. Many of us fall somewhere between these two extremes and therefore, the answer is not as clear. Just remember that the Master Source Text should only contain information that is common to ALL references to this Master Source The Source Detail Text should only contain information that is NOT common to all references to the Master Source Anyway, that is how I see it. 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
