Paula, Is the book giving you information about an event that would belong in the person's timeline? If, for example, it told where the person lived in 1905, I would add a residence event, add the date, and add the transcription of the sentence/phrase/paragraph from the book to the event notes. This builds the person's timeline. Now, you would need to cite the book as the event's source, so yes, I'd simply copy/paste the transcription from the event notes into the source detail text. Takes a little extra effort at first, but in the long run you'll be glad it's in both places. However...since Legacy is so flexible, there are probably lots of ways to accomplish what you want it to. From my experience, this method provides the most flexibility and ease-of-analysis.
Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Paula Ryburn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method Geoff, If you were quoting from the book in the Event Notes, would you ALSO put the same text into the citation??? (in my case it's a long hand-written letter, where I want the individual's narrative of his grandfather's story IN the reports) --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ----- Original Message ---- From: Geoff Rasmussen <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, September 16, 2011 2:29:16 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method I would transcribe that portion of the page that you are citing into the source detail text. No need to do too much more than that, Geoff -----Original Message----- From: Dean Adams [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Sources - Geoff's Method Geoff includes all the info from a source in the source detail, whether the source is a census, obituary, etc. How is a source such as a book of family history handled? It contains pages and pages on many individuals and families. This appears to be too much to include in a single source. Dean Adams 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 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
