You know, I think that may work. A couple of questions: How many items will Legacy allow to be included? and....is there a way to print all these for a complete study of the person they relate to?
Thanks for a good clue to getting a mess organized. Jane On 11/21/2014 1:00 PM, Michele/Support wrote: > Jane, > If I am doing a case study on a person, I will write up everything I have in > MS Word. I can then link to the Word document in the person's Media Gallery. > Since this is a link, I don't have to update anything in Legacy if I go > back into Word and update the document. This is how I do all of my proof > arguments. I can jazz up the report with tables and graphics as needed. > > You could do the same thing. You could put all of those bits and pieces of a > person in a document file. You would have the added flexibility of being > able to include screenshots or snippets from websites that you can't do in > the Notes section of Legacy. Since it is linked, you can update the > document whenever you want and you wouldn't have to do anything further in > Legacy. Legacy would always have the most updated version. > > > Michele > Technical Support > [email protected] > www.legacyfamilytree.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jane Sarles [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 12:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LegacyUG] Where to put gathered information? > > I have tried very hard to find a way to include in my Legacy data the > information I gather during many years of research. This includes copied and > pasted snips from the internet, correspondence by email, responses on message > boards, all the information I have gathered over the years. I thought I > would put it in the "General{ notes section of the Notes part, but it didn't > work because when I tried to do a copy/paste, it just disappeared. I didn't > really like that option anyway, because you cannot arrange it in any > meaningful way. > > I know that some folks have suggested using an imaginary person, named > perhaps, Wells, Joseph Research, or some such. My problem with this is, if > I want to print out (or review) ALL the information I have about a person, > the notes in the imaginary person's file would not be included. > > The solution may lie with using Evernote, but I do wish our Legacy had a > section similar to Evernote that allowed us to include and organize all the > information we have gathered about a person. Don't say that the > "Events/Facts would serve, since much of the information is conjectural or at > least not substantial enough to use as a fact. > > Jane Wells Sarles > > > > > 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
