Legacy makes a separate entry into the database for every source detail. That is to say, if have one Master Source and an associated Detail copied to the clipboard, and you attach them to the birth, death, burial, and marriage. Your database will contain one link to the same Master Source, but four separate copies of the Source Detail. It makes no difference if the details are identical to each other, Legacy maintains a separate copy for each bit of data it is attached to.
This is why it is such a pain to updated details when you've discovered you forgot a bit of data, but have already pasted the citations around. On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Ron Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > Jenny, > > Again, I'm not following you. Yes there is only one Master Source for the > Census, but there is only one Source Detail as well. Like I said it only > contains the Registration District Details and the Date. The details from > the census are contained in the Events, such as Employment etc., so are not > included in the Source. > > I simply use the three arrows icon to attach the full Source. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jenny M Benson > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Single Source Citation link to multiple People and > Events > > On 27/07/2011 11:46, Ron Ferguson wrote: >> For example, I have just added a new family to my tree with data taken >> from >> the 1881 census. The Master Source comprises the National data for the >> 1881 >> census and the Detail the Registration District, the reference numbers for >> that district and the date, and the census image is attached. This I use >> for >> all the events relating to that family eg. Vital Events, Residence, >> Occupation etc. One Source for all the data (as you know I'm a lumper). >> >> Only 1 iteration of the source for all events. > > Yes, but you paste in the actual Source Detail lots of times, don't you? > > > As a lumper, you only have one Master Source, which you refer to many > times. But as soon as you start adding Source Detail you don't refer to > the one Detail several times, you make several copies of it. You don't > make several copies of the Census image, you have one copy which is > referenced several times. I think Paul is suggesting you have one copy > of a Census Detail which you reference several times. > > Not sure how it would work in practice, though, because of the way a > Citation is made up of a Master Source and a Detail and the varying > amounts of lumping/splitting that are practised. I rather suspect > Legacy handles Citations the way it does because that's the best way to > do it! > > -- > 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). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > -- James Cook GED Utils, Ancestry Utils http://loosestacks.blogspot.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
