Thank you, Jenny. A few follow up questions: 1. I created an event for the water body where my ancestor owned land and put all the deeds for that body in that event. In the source detail, I copied the abstracts just as they were given in the book in the Text/Comments field.
When I generated a descendant book report, the source detail did not print out in the footnote. I looked for an option to do that but did not see it. Is there one? I'd like researchers to see exactly what is in the abstract. 2. In PAF you could print a "register report" which is presumably the equivalent of a descendant book report in Legacy. (Please let me know if there is another.) The report was continuous and did not break down into generations like Legacy's and the footnotes all appeared at the end. Is that possible in Legacy? Thanks, Barton -----Original Message----- From: Jenny M Benson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2015 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] one source entry - many entries 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 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
