Marg,
You aren’t the only one; I have some of those clippings, too! For these, I use as a lead in for the obituary transcription in the Obituary Event notes: … he (or she) was remembered in a published obituary And then I type in the obituary transcription If we have a clipping, we ‘know’ it was published somewhere, even if we don’t know the particulars. As a suggestion, if you want to source the clipping, create a generic ‘Newspaper Clipping’ and explain in the source detail how you came to have the clipping. I also prefer to use the full text of the obituaries in the Obituary Event notes and have it print out in the narrative reports. My intent is for the interest of the family reader, mostly elderly, and they like to read the obituaries. If you aren’t going to publish, format your family history to please your family and yourself. Legacy allows us a lot of leeway to personalize our reports.J Mary From: Marg Strong [mailto:[email protected]] Am I the only person who has inherited news clippings without any publication info? Not even a date or newspaper? Not much source there, I'm afraid. When I source the event with the clipping, it's really dry. "Unknown newspaper, unknown date, unknown place." If I pick facts from the obit to add to events, such as occupation, residence, etc (mostly because the timetable is important to me), they will sometimes be events using that same source. The content of the obit holds events in it. The source is definitely what information one has about it's source. Hope that makes sense! _____ From: Lee Bruch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:45 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event And to further explain: For my use, a source is the where I heard about, or others can find out about, either the event or record. Thus, a death is an EVENT, an obituary is a RECORD, and the newspaper that ran the obituary, or where that obituary can be currently found, is a SOURCE 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
