Thanks, Mike. I realise that a master source isn't a template - I'd just like to create a template so that I can be consistent & save time filling in details. I've actually now filled in all my birth certificates - generically as a master source called 'Birth Certificate' under Event 'Birth', but specifically for each individual.
Now getting onto marriages and I would like to be able to create an Event called 'Marriage' - just as there are Events under 'Assigned Sources' called 'Birth' and 'Unspecified' I've looked at the help file on sources but couldn't find what I needed. The whole Legacy sourcing 'thing' seems rather too complicated for its own good! Thanks again, Joan On 03/08/2011 23:51, Mike Fry wrote: > On 2011/08/03 23:38, Joan Kemp wrote: > >> I have set up a new master source as a template for the information >> contained on >> a standard birth certificate. >> I have called it 'Birth certificate template' but it would be nice if it >> weren't >> listed as 'Unspecified' > Your first misunderstanding is about what a Master Source is - it's not a > template! > > Depending on how you view sources it's basically a document or the source of > multiple similar documents i.e. either a specific Birth Certificate or Birth > Certificates in general, or Birth Certificates issued by place A etc etc etc > > Since you wanted to set up a template, I presume you set up a Basic Source, as > opposed to a SourceWriter source for which you are restricted to the supplied > templates. Even a Basic Source for a Birth Certificate is not a template as > such. See the Help file for lots of information on Sourcing. > > Of course, you can set up your Birth Certificate Template as you did, but in > that case you NEVER use it as a Master Source. When you want to set up a new > Birth Certificate source, you should copy your Template and save it as a > separate Master Source which you subsequently use for your citation(s). > 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
