On 24/08/2012 03:57, Ian GARDENER wrote: > Unfortunately I can't help you directly but I find myself being > forced to use the basic source option fairly often because the > sourcewriter options are very restrictive & clearly designed for US > users more than others. I sorely wish there was an option to add > categories in the first screen of source writer. The generic option > just doesn't quite cut it in many situations.
My research is about 95% UK and I only have 3 Basic Sources now, having converted all the rest to SourceWriter. And I will convert those 3 in due course. I think some people don't realise that you don't have to fill in every field on the template and you can ignore the field names if you wish. Take the Generic, Manuscript template. The fields on the Master are "Collection" and "Respository" - doesn't mean you can't enter something like "Auntie Fanny's Recipe Book" as the Collection and ignore the Repository if you wish. Then the fields for the Source Detail are Item Title, Item Date, Item Type and Item No. If those fields don't suit the item you are citing, just ignore the last 3 and write something meaningful in the first field - you could write a whole paragraph in the style of a Basic Source Citation if you wished. > > Even it had a "personal research notes" or "transcribed notes" option > might help. I'm not quite sure how such notes would be used as Sources - surely the Source would be the documents/films/websites/whatever that you consulted and from which you made notes and the notes would be added to the Text or Comments fields? However, if you wanted to use such options they would fit very neatly into the Collection field of the template I mentioned above. -- Jenny M Benson 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
