Please forgive me for asking a really DUMB question... How do I source digital photos that I've taken of, for example, headstones and cemeteries?
These digital photos are the cemetery sign or entrance, an overview of the cemetery, the headstone (some at various angles or close-ups of certain parts of the stone), an overview of the family plot, etc. and then enter these photos in the individual's headstone event along with any notes. And since I'm trying to clean-up my Legacy files, I'm finding several that haven't been sourced and lots of inconsistencies with sourcing especially with older entries, most likely because of my lack of experience/knowledge. If only I knew then what little I know now! When I pull down the template in Legacy for the "Photographs, portraits & sketches>privately held", I enter all the information as suggested. I have to enter this information on every photograph with a few exceptions where I can just copy the source to the clipboard and paste to a few other photos, like using the same family plot or cemetery overview photos for all those buried in the plot, etc. I've looked at several of the privately held templates in Legacy and they seem to be one in the same, read Evidence Explained and these templates work extremely will with the one-of-a-kind artifacts or holdings that I have, but with these photos I'm going to end up with hundreds of master sources not to mention extremely time consuming. So, I must be doing something very wrong or overlooking the obvious in sourcing these images. What I want to do is to create a master source for the digital photos I've taken, and then use the source detail screen for the subject. Something along the line of the master source title of Headstones>Personal Photo Collection or Headstones>Cemetery Name>Personal Photo Collection (or something similar) and then have the detail source screen where I can enter the information about that particular subject/photo. I have single master sources for my census records, on-line death certificate databases, etc., where I can use the detail source screen and works very well, but this privately held sourcing has stumped me. Thanks for helping this confused amateur and hoping someday, I'll be able to return the favor! Sheri Harris Georgia Researching the families of West, Harris, Trimmer, McDonald, Prater, Moose, Stockburger, Daugherty, Elliott, Atchley and Haney www.westharrisfamily.com 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
