Sue, Your thread was hijacked! I had also struggled with how to use this one flag to indicate how strong I thought the evidence was. But evidence is more than one document.
Besides the issues you've raised, a particular document might be a certainty for one piece of data (death date on a death certificate) and pretty iffy on another (mother's place of birth on same death certificate). In that case, it is nice to be able to set the surety level differently on each citation for the same source. One of Geoff's posts for v8 functionality is about "Sources"--check it out: In Legacy, go to Legacy Home and scroll down in the "Legacy News" pane to find "Legacy Family Tree 8 Revealed - Sources" article & click on it. I know it's not available yet, but I think it might help us out. There was also a webinar on August 14th that was about Research Guidance, To-Do Lists, and Research Notes. A lot of people use the Research Notes to record their "results" or "how I came to this conclusion"--and Research Notes can be included in reports. Maybe you could search the LUG archives for threads about this topic. I think some of them were about "unproven parents" or something, so try different search strings. I do like your idea for a different color for a line you're just not sure is really connected--like flashing lights? ;) However, you will find many in this group would not even enter those people, or at the very least not link them in to their family tree, until they are definitely proved. Based on one of those threads, I did go back and unlink a line on my husband's side. I left all the ancestors in my db, but unlinked--a separate tree. Then on the oldest ancestor in the established line, I added extensive Notes about who the most likely two fathers are for him, including their RIN's in my db, and why. So, in reports, this line ends with him, but I've left breadcrumbs on where to go from him... marked with a lot of asterisks. ;) Admittedly, I have the problem of not having a lot of time to work on my research and too many "mysteries" to research, so I need those breadcrumbs. Hopefully, when I "solve" a mystery, I will get it documented well enough that I don't question myself the NEXT time I look at that ancestor. "How did I know THAT??" haha --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Beasley Benson Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Hale Harbaugh Hind Hopkins Hughes Hurdle Jones Klein Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sanford Short Singer Sullivan Weller Williams ________________________________ From: Sue Anderson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12:48 AM Subject: [LegacyUG] Surety v sources It is all very well putting surety levels on sources, it’s surety levels on interpretation of the sources that is my worry. I know that parish records are a primary source but the quality is only as good as the person entering the info. How do I know if this John Smith is correct and the one baptized in the next parish isn’t the one. At least 10% were not baptized there may have been yet another one. None of this is anything to do with the surety of the source. I would like to be able to show on the family view my level of certainty of the evidence. Something along the line of a colour for that whole line which may or may not be correct. Sue A 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
