Paula, Thanks for your diligence in replying. That method is what I refer to as being a splitter – simply havein lots of unique master sources. Certainly solves the problem of later updates – just modify the master source and apply it to all previous references of the master source. Guess we will have to just hope that Legacy provides us a method of finding and modifying all iterations of a source detail someday…
Cheers to you and the others who try to answer all of our question. Kevin Long From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How to update multiple source details? Kevin, If it's truly the one same picture for ALL of the source details/citations, why not just add it on the master source? (Sorry to be so late in replying... "life" has kept me from catching up on reading the list until this week.) --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams _____ From: Kevin Long <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 1:38:45 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to update multiple source details? Alan, Thanks for the ideas. So, it seems, from the lack of response, that there is not a way to update all source details with a new picture location. How about just changing a picture filename in order to clean up those? Any shortcuts that will avoid major editing of each event source? BTW, is there a reason to save pdfs of censuses, for example, as files rather than pictures? I’m still real confused by all of this. Thanks again everyone. Kevin Long From: Alan Pereira [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 10:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] How to update multiple source details? I don’t know whether this helps or not. A long time ago, when using Family Tree Maker, I decided on an approach with sources that also works for Legacy. It does require a fixed filing system that is scaleable as your research grows. I keep all media files outside Legacy but reference them by name & location either within the source detail or in specific notes (General, Birth, Christening, Death, Burial & Marriage). This, as with census material, does require lengthy transcription but it does mean that pretty well all source detail can be changed via the Global Find/Replace as I am only dealing with text. Cons: It’s a lot of work to change Depends on how you use source images – so I don’t know Pros: It also keeps the Legacy file as small as possible. Reports can show the transcribed sources e.g. Descendant Narrative report. You can tag a specific master source, generate a search list and produce an events report containing the sources applicable to that event to look for inconsistencies in source detail. You can keep Master Sources as Generic as possible. [minor splitter] Alan From: Kevin Long [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 09 June 2011 21:14 To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] How to update multiple source details? I often find additional information that I forgot on the source detail (not the master source definition), in particular, a picture or file. Is there a way to update all citations of that source detail? I know that I can go to the master source list and do a show list. However, that’s only the tip of the iceberg as many individuals will have the source detail cited numerous times. Thanks in advance for any tips on how to do this. It almost makes me want to be a major splitter and have a master source for EVERY document that I find. 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