Dawn: Your message is a little too long to respond to all parts, so here are some brief thoughts:
Are you making your surname corrections at View > Master Lists > Surname? That’s by far the quickest and easiest way to do it. Transfer of source citations from one program to another will continue to be problematic until a new GEDCOM standard is developed to include specific tags for all the parts of the citation (don’t hold your breath!). In the meantime, in Legacy, I use the various sections as follows: Master Source > Source Info screen is for only the data that will be appropriate for many different citations, such as the title, author, and publication information of a book. Master Source > Text/Comments screen is for only comments that apply to the entire item being sourced. An example for a questionable book might be: “Contains much hearsay and many disproven assumptions; use with caution.” Source Detail (accessed from the Source Clipboard) would include a specific page number from the book above. Source Detail > Text/Comments screen would be used to quote the actual and applicable text from that specific page. The box below that says “Enter any comments about this Citation (Optional)” could be used for comments such as “Note conflict in birth date and location as shown on death record.” I believe this is how the various fields were designed to be used, but transferring them to another program via GEDCOM will produce *very* mixed results. Kirsten From: dedted 29 Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: "Re: [LegacyUG] Adding text details to a source/citation" and exporting GEDCOM issues This thread is regarding something that I never did quite understand when I first noticed it in moving from PAF to AQ and Legacy! I'm not a professional just a dedicated family historian/genealogist of less than 10 years and it has confused me on more than one occasion where the programs have a section for the actual text or transcript of the document in both the source details screen and the citation screen! In importing from PAF to both AQ and Legacy all of my sources with transcripts of the text all imported the text into the source details page. I encountered a corrupted database issue with Legacy that the programmers couldn't figure out so I stuck with AQ and like Legacy it had all my imported text was at the source field which made sense to me, at least, since this the field that defines the document itself. The citation field didn't even seem logical since it didn't describe the record either. AQ's help didn't even discuss the actual text box in the citation field. I first encountered the issue with FTM2010 where in the import of the Gedcom from AQ to FTM every source was stripped of the transcriptions and only the citations remained. I thought FTM, which I didn't like anyway, was completely corrupted and stayed AQ. Recently I to help my mentor who uses an older version of FTM and I purchased FTM2012 and again the import of AQ to FTM failed to import the transcript of the text! That got me wondering what had happened and I ran a test and sure enough FTM imports the text if it is in the citation actual text field! That is a big problem between programs! I just tested the transfer from Legacy to FTM and sure enough every document had the citation only and no transcripts! This is a huge problem in genealogy programs! My tree is not large but even the thought of having to copy over 1200 sources with transcripts to the citation field and fix any formatting problems just to have to it recognize by FTM is more than a little daunting. I'm still kicking myself for entering surnames in caps early on as now I'm having to go through the name list and change them to mixed case and hope I don't make any typos along the way! I'm still trying to figure out why they created programs that had two separate fields for the source text!!! In reading lists I saw some explanations of why and how others use the text at the citation field but apparently I haven't been at it long enough to require a Master list of one source for multiple people. Even those explanations were a bit confusing! Also could someone tell me how to create custom reports please? I couldn't figure out how to use the report system to create a report that listed all the sources with text entered in the source field. 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