Thanks, Mary for the encouragement. You express my thoughts better than I seem to do!
>________________________________ > From: Mary Fowler Leek <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 9:35 PM >Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Obituary Event > > >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 > > > 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
