Eddy: You summarized the problem very clearly. Linking citations is a very useful and time-saving tool that should be incorporated into any good genealogical program. Legacy seems to be a very good program but it can always be improved. We can only hope someone is listening.
Dick -------------------------------------------------- From: "Eddy Steenbergen" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2015 12:51 AM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Linking Source Citations > 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 > > 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
