Joan, You really should do as Mike suggested and study the Help Files properly. Events and sources are not the same thing. An event is either a Fact eg. where somebody lived, or something which happened. A source contains the details as to from where you got the information eg. a census. A Master Source contains details which are common to a number of sources eg. the name and reference number for a census in a specific, State, County or whatever, and the Detail Source the specific details of the Source relating to the individual to which the Event pertains.
If you go to the Legacy Home Tab in Legacy (next to the Family Tab) at the bottom right is a box with links to videos and tips from the experts contained on the Legacy website. I suggest that you have a look at these before jumping in with both feet and then having to start everything from scratch. When you have looked at these please feel free to come back if there are things which you still don't understand. Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: Joan Kemp Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 12:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Citing Sources 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
