On 28/03/2015 17:55, Barton Lewis wrote: > I have 2 questions about sources: first, where do I enter land > records? I looked (also on Help) and did not see an obvious answer. On > the Individual’s Information page, for example, I guess I could click > inside the surname field and add it there but I’m not sure that’s > right. PAF had fields for Military, Land etc. Does Legacy not have those? > > Also, some ancestors have dozens of records in a single county – e.g. in > published abstracts of deeds. I don’t really want to create a separate > source entry for each one – I thought I would handle it thusly: create > a single source, leave the page field blank, and paste the text into the > Text/Comments field with the page number in square brackets for each > record. Does that sound right? > I wonder if you are confusing Sources and Events/Facts. I don't know PAF, but I'm fairly sure the "fields" you refer to will be what Legacy calls Events or Facts. Events and Facts are listed together in Legacy and generally referred to as Events, but Legacy does use the section heading Events/Facts on the Individual's Information page and this is more accurate.
Legacy has an Event named Land and the default sentence, if all fields are entered, is [HeShe] owned land [Desc] [onDate] [inPlace]. Having entered the information from your Land Records into the Land Event/Fact you would then cite the Land Records as the Source(s) for that information. You can either create a separate Event/Fact for each piece of land held, or list them all under the one heading. It's your choice. You will probably want to create one Master Source for all the records from one County, and if you chose to use just one Event/Fact you can use that Master Source with just one Source Detail, or cite the Master Source several times with variations (such as page number) in the Details. -- 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://support.legacyfamilytree.com 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
