I disagree about the elegance of all this. For one thing, library locations and hours DO change over time (Summer hours for libraries, funding woes reduce hours, street addresses change depending on which door they want used this year, and so on and on and on). Keeping such a list updated is practically a full-time job, and if you don't keep updating it, there's no point to having it -- you need it, you Google it.
As for people you can't yet link to your line, enter 'em as unlinked sub-trees. It is fatally easy to record something off-database and to lose it in the morass of files. I tend to put most of this ephemeral info in the NOTES of the Original Progenitor. It clutters up only one FGS (and extra points because it's usually the FGS with fewest entries otherwise), and I can FIND it. Of which FINDING it is the most-important. ;) Note that I do not think of this methodology as elegant, merely functional for my purposes. Cheryl Jane Sarles wrote: > OK, one of the things I have is the hours and locations of all the > libraries in the county where I know the Wells family lived. It doesn't > fit anywhere in Legacy that I can see, but it is useful information for > me when doing research. Please understand, this is just a sample of > the kind of thing I am talking about. Much of the info is nothing I > would ever put into the data base as event/fact. Perhaps, a list of all > the Wells people in the 1850 census of their county. Or the Barbados > history of a Wells family that MIGHT be mine. I am speaking of what > might be called ancillary information that will be useful when doing > research or just reviewing my data. As I say, I know I can put it into > Evernote (or One Note as the case may be), but wouldn't it be elegant if > there was a place in Legacy for it so that ALL our information for > genealogy could be in one place, instead of spread around in note > programs or separate files on our computer? Just a dreamer, I guess. > > Jane > > > On 11/21/2014 12:36 PM, Sherry/Support wrote: >> I put all those miscellaneous snips in OneNote (used it for years, >> long before I even heard of EverNote) until I get a chance to enter >> the data in Legacy. Once I enter the data, I can "Print" that page to >> a PDF printer driver, saving it to the Media folder and then link to >> the appropriate place in Legacy. I can also send it to Word and save >> it as a Word document. The original snip is still in OneNote with the >> URL of where it came from. >> >> You can save other things besides web pages to OneNote as well. >> >> But until I get confirmation of that data to make sure it applies to >> my individual and I have entered something in Legacy to link it to, it >> stays in OneNote, where it should. >> >> OneNote can be on the web as well as Evernote. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> Sherry >> Technical Support >> Legacy Family Tree >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jane Sarles<[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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
