In Legacy 7.5 a sourcewriter source is added "FamilySearch (http://new.familysearch.org)" for each event pulled back from FamilySearch to Legacy. If you want to enter the actual source assigned to the event in Family Search, you have to manually transcribe it.
Alan Pereira -----Original Message----- From: William Boswell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 02 December 2013 14:55 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Family Search Integration [was: E mail test and customer number] Thanks for that explanation. I noticed when I add information to my tree, it doesn't download any source information especially who provided it. Just the FS number. I have to go to the website to get that information. I hope the next level of certification provides better sourcing tools. Bill -----Original Message----- From: John B. Lisle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 12:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Family Search Integration [was: E mail test and customer number] Bill, Let me start out by saying that I am not a FS expert, but I have played with it and done a bit of testing. I think I can give some guidance. 1/ As far as I know, there is going to be little printed documentation on the Family Search module. There is a limited amount in Help. Geoff's strategy for training this has been short videos. You will notice that the Help menu and the top line of FS have links to watch videos. These should be your first line of understanding the module. 2/ When you set Option 1.11 in Legacy to integrate with FamilySearch, you are only enabling the ability to link your Family File to the FamilySearch Tree database. At this point no information has been exchanged. 3/ When you link a person in the Family Search DB with your Family File, what you are doing is adding the FS ID of the person in the FS DB to the Family Search ID field for person in your Family File. I consider this fairly innocuous, as no data is exchanges either way. The arrows go from gray-gray to become red-red because no information has been exchanged. 4/ Once you have made a link, you can now add information to the Family Search tree. As you had to login to use the tree, any information that you add is now in the tree and credited to you, no matter if you break the link or not. It is now available for everyone. 5/ If you add information from FS into your Family File, it is added and does not go away because you broke the link. 6/ There is much more that is done and some of the activities need to be done on the Family Search web site. Family Search can be a very powerful addition to your research. And contributing your information is going to make the FS tree all the more potent as a research tool. As I said in a previous message, many serious researchers - I know of many from the Guild of One Name Studies (London) - who are using Family Search tree as the place they archive their research. AND, if you are an LDS member, FM is the site through which you organize your Temple work. Please note that Legacy Family Search on L7.5 and L8 is identical. Major updates to both versions have been released in the last 30 days. And this module is awaiting the next level of certification which will mean that users will be able to access more functionality from the Legacy module. john. 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
