Hello Dick I came very close to switching to FTM because of the citation issue you raise.
FTM handles citations in a sensible fashion. After all, in the real world one often uses a citation to support many facts. I believe the handling of citations was an error in the original design of Legacy software and database. I don't accept for one moment that Legacy could not be modified to handle linking of citiations. I suspect that Legacy have concluded that it would take too much effort. The database structure would need to be modified as would the user interface in many places. It is interesting that it took an ex-FTM user to raise this issue. I suspect that most Legacy users have never used any other software and have simply got used to the way Legacy works and have found ways (fudges, tricks) to get around the citation issue. Maybe the demise of FTM will encourage Legacy to fix the problem. Cheers, Eddy from Tasmania. On 19/12/2015 6:14 AM, Dick and Leslie Felts wrote: > As a refugee from FTM, I'm working hard to understand the > Source/Citation methods of Legacy. So far, so good with one exception. > I like to generate a single citation (such as detailed information > from a census) and use that citation many times for different people > and events. Is there, or is there not, a way in Legacy to revise that > citation (to correct a typo, for example) and have the revision apply > to ALL places where the citation is used? I've looked through a > number of postings to this list from past years and it is still not > clear if the feature I'm looking for exists. The equivalent in FTM > would be the two choices to either "copy" or "link" a citation. With > copied citations, you must edit each occurrence. With linked > citations, you can edit any occurrence of the citation and all of them > change. > Thanks in advance. > Dick Felts 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
