Sorry, I led everyone astray when I said I put a lot of information in Notes..
What I have been doing is to create new events, for example – ‘About Birth’ and then putting the information in there which has also allowed me to add an additional photograph of the birth record or church. I found the addition of more photographs – particularly old ones – makes it more interesting. Yes, it does add a lot of events for everyone, with many of them being just a line or two long, I’m not sure how I would add extra photographs if I don’t add an extra event. I do keep the general notes for interesting facts and stories. Thanks – June From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Ward Walker Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2016 12:10 AM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources I was the ‘victim’ of such a practice when I received a large GEDCOM file from a fellow researcher. I really don’t like it. Any report or web page that you produce that shows notes is hugely bloated by a lot of census and other detail that your target reader really does not want to see. Their eyes glaze over and they lose interest. I believe that the general notes, especially, should state interesting facts and stories (together with any events). Certainly some of these stories can mention where they came from, in a narrative way. But most source information should be in citation footnotes/endnotes, further backed up with text notes in the underlying detail source citations. In research notes, sources may be part of the discussion, but even there, the verbose details are clutter. A second reason is redundancy. Source details that are in note fields often need to be placed in the notes for multiple individuals/marriages. Again, more clutter/verbosity that kills the readability of the report or web page. Ward
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