This is what I would do, too, except I would probably only reference the page # in the detail, since you can access the full file from the individual's source citation window. (I might be missing a nuance of what you're dealing with, though.) --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: Jenny M Benson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 12:45 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] document detailing large number of individuals On 27/03/2014 17:24, Kathy Meyer wrote: > I have a document that is 33 pages long and details at least 20-30 > individuals. > > I will copy/paste the details of each page into my sourcing for the > individuals mentioned on each individual page the same way I do with a > census when it is showing multiple individuals. > > I feel like I should be saving the entire document somewhere as well. > The original document gives a list of what is on each page and gives > some background about the archive and even some images of churches in > the areas of research and a map. I wouldn't want to add these > individually to every single individual that I am adding into my file. > That seems excessive, although it would be nice to be able to access > these general items without having to remember which individual that > file is attached to. I hope that makes sense. > > I wish there was some 'general' area in Legacy that would allow us to > add this type of document and maybe tag the family 'line' that would be > involved. > > Reasoning is that I don't want to inflate my individual files > unnecessarily but also, if I add to that tree later, I won't remember > that I have a really nice image of the church in the area that the > person was born or that I have a map of that area. And those things > would only be attached to the people I'm inputting now. > > Does anyone have a work around for this? Or a suggestion about how you > would handle these type of more 'general' documents? You could make the complete document a Master Source and attach the file, then copy and paste the relevant passages to the Source Text field in the Source Details whenever you cite this Source. -- 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 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
