I'd like to interject here.... You might not be planning at the moment to publish, but you do need to think about the future use of your Family File.
I lead a Legacy User Group and have spent the past three months teaching the group how to "fix" something just like this. The group member who volunteered her file had just put all her source information and data that should be in events into the Notes field because it was "quick and easy" and she was "on a roll" in a research session. And it never got cleaned up. She's a retired teacher, very intelligent and very computer literate, teaching computer classes herself. She just wasn't real focused on correct data entry at the time she got the data and now is going to be spending a lot of time setting things right. I've spent the time going through the notes of just *one* individual (and we haven't even finished that one person!), detailing how the sources should be entered as sources and how the events should be entered as events and how the sources can be also considered "events' and events can also be sources. She realizes she has a major task ahead of her to clean up her file so it's in a "presentable" format at the time she needs to pass it on to another family member to continue with the research. In this process, we found a lot of duplication in various areas We talked about creating sources, merging duplicate sources, correctly entering locations, merging locations, merging events, creating To-Do items, etc. It's been an excellent teaching experience for all! Several members in the group who had also just been "dumping" everything into notes were encouraged to clean up their files and have spent hours fixing things when they could have done it the "right way" the first time and now be working on the brick walls instead of doing clean-up! So think about what you're going to do with the file and data in the long run and do it right from the start so you don't waste time redoing it all later! Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Scott Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm similar to Michele in that I keep all "official" sources, but I track my > sources in a different way -- via the Research Notes page. I do this > because at the moment I am not intending on publishing such that I need > official sources as end notes right now. At some point, I will have to > consider how to move my source information. > > I *do* keep all sources in the master list, I just don't link to the data > fields (some exceptions, such as events, apply). > > Instead I have a code system for all of my data within the Research Notes, > such that I can see everywhere the data came from and what it said. For > example, here are the research notes for my grandfather: <snip> 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
