Cathy? What if she ran a GED, then hand-inserted the event (type it once, then copy'n'paste) where it's needed, then re-import into a 2nd db and finish the process there?
I try not to use Events so I've never done a GED with them in, but seems to me it might be faster. Cheryl Cathy Pinner wrote: > Hi Anne, > > Well you found an option in Legacy that I didn't know > existed. options for non-sources. That doesn't happen very > often ;-) > > It sounds like you'll have to do them one by one though it > may be easier if you used the copy to general notes option > in the non-sources options and did it from there so you > weren't constantly going back to the assigned sources page - > but what is easier depends on whether you have notes for > these people. The census and military sources would remain > sources for the name. I don't think a move or copy to the > event notes works unless the source is already attached to > that event. > > I'd be using Show List for the Master Source and then > tagging those that use it and working through the tagged group. > This can be done most efficiently EITHER by working in a > Search list based on the tag (or the master source) OR by > using the Individual T ag box at the bottom right of the > screen, setting this to the right tag number and using the > arrows to scroll from one person to the next. > > The events will still need a source. > > Perhaps these are in sources because the program you were > previously using didn't have a place for specific events - > or perhaps in those days you just saw a census as a source > as some still do - in which case you'd enter at least a > residence event with the census as the source so that it > shows in a person's timeline/chronology. > > I enter the census as an event as well as a source as the > residence may be the same for a number of different censuses > and also have a number of other sources. I want to be able > to look at the Event list and see very easily whether I've > found someone in every relevant census. > > To do this fully is a huge job, especially if you haven't > transcribed the census data or included the actual census > reference - but you may at least in the first instant b e > happy without that much detail. I put a transcript in the > head of household event notes as well as the Source Detail > Text. I'm in the process of updating some of my census > sources as when I found them I didn't really understand the > reference - and generally the information was coming from a > transcript rather than the image. > > Note that copying the source to either event notes or > general notes only takes the parts checked for printing. So > if source detail text and comments aren't checked, they're > not copied. > > Sorry it could be a long job but tagging helps you to do it > in manageable bits or when you feel like it as you untag > each person when you've processed them. > If you use the tag box at the bottom right to cycle through > the people, you may want to go to Options - Customise 12.5 > and turn off the message telling you that you're at the end > (or beginning) of a tag list and need to go to the beginning > (or end). > > Cathy > > [email protected] wrote: >> >> 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). 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