Hi Cathy, Thanks for replying. I believe I need to make new specific events on each person and move the census (and other things) from sources for that person to the new events.
When these were originally input, about 35-40 years ago, there wasn't a distinction between the source and its event. (These records are all under "name" rather the "unspecified" in the Assigned Sources, I don't know why.) The ged.coms, as I transferred from program to program through the years, finally ended up with this information in sources here in Legacy. My "source" is just "1850 Census" for example. Then I put the place in the details. I never recorded where I found the censuses. Each entry is for one person only, as I haven't yet decided to "share" with each family member listed, I only have it on the head. So, I have 4 or 5 census entries and once in a while a military, for pretty much each person, several thousand, and they all show in footnotes on reports, instead of in the body of the report where I do want the whole record. Nothing was transferred to events by the ged.coms. My entries for birth, death, & marriage certificates, documents, newspaper articles, etc are all in sources, which is OK, but never in events. I believe I'll have to create events for at least some of these, to get the info to print elegantly in reports, but I thought I'd start with the census records as they take up so much space. 2. I mean I went to master source list >options >options for non-sources >copy to: events or notes. But I guess I would already need an event set up for it to copy to. Thus the hand work. Thanks for the clipboard idea. I've never used the clipboard before, so this will give me the impetus to figure that tool out. It sounds like it can save me time, even doing them one by one. Well, many of my census entries do show a source, that is I once entered "see census file" because even all those years ago I always took a photocopy of each census page and have a physical file of copies for each family. Now-a-days my new copies are jpg's on the computer, so there are the 2 "sources", if that makes any difference. Thank you for your thoughts on my dilemma. Anne 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
