Margaret: I'm not sure that I'm following your issue correctly, but it sounds like you've created three Master Sources when you should/could have only one. Typically at the Master Source screen you would enter only the information that's common to all three marriages which would probably be only the first three fields under Step 2. Save the Master Source. Then you open the Individual Information screen and the Source Clipboard for any one of your people, select the NY marriage master source that you created, enter the specific information for that marriage (names, date, location, etc.) under the Detail Information and/or the Text/Comments tabs. Check the Preview Pane at the right to be sure it's as you want it and there are no typos, then save and attach it to each field where it applies.
You follow the same process for each of the other two marriages, or a shortcut would be to delete the Detail Information and/or Text Comments *from the Source Clipboard*, enter the details for the next marriage and attach it to the appropriate fields for the next couple. Kirsten -----Original Message----- From: Margaret DeAcetis [mailto:med_11...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 4:38 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: [LegacyUG] Using Master List Names and the Source Clipboard I'm using Legacy 7.4. I've been using the Source Writer to enter the marriages of a mother, daughter #1 and daughter #2. I used the template: marriage record>found in govt records>marriage certificates>all countries except....>created by state/provincial>basic. I do not know how to access each of the 3 marriages when I want to link one or another to whatever category I want, such as name, marriage, marriage event, parents, witnesses, etc. I called my master source: New York, Manhattan, New York - Civil Marriage Record. When I created the master source for each couple, the master source name fields are completed identically.The variations appear in the following source fields: source master text and master comments, and detail text and comments. It is my understanding that only one master source name should appear for these 3 marriages when I select view, master list, source. (I created 3 and believe I have to combine them.) When combined, by pressing the show list bottom on the right of the screen I will see a list of all individuals associated with the 3 marriages. I've used the source clipboard icons but more often that not, I am retyping the same data over and over again, especially the screen that differentiates the 1908 marriage from the ones in 1929 and 1931. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Margaret DeAcetis Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ 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
