Cynthia, Will you be required to pull everything together in a word processor if you plan to use footnotes as you describe? I’m not a whiz at Word but I suspect it will be required if you are to use your style of footnotes. Don’t forget to include photos and charts with photos as they add so much interest for the reader. Your project sounds great and I wish you great success. One thing I would like to point out. You do not need to use the event sentences in Legacy. I use the Event Note area almost exclusively as I prefer to write most of the information I add so it flows better and doesn’t appear so stilted. If you take a look at the Publishing Center, do take note of the placeholders. They make it easy to include extra material and have it appear in the Table of Contents. I’ve created additions outside of Legacy, saved as PDF documents, then included with my ‘book’ by using the placeholder to include the section in the Table of Contents. For my own simple compilations, I pull everything together with Adobe Acrobat, as I share my family ‘books’ with family electronically, rather than printing. I add a bookmark pane and set it to open when the document is opened. This makes it easy for the reader to go directly to a specific family group or chart, etc. If the family member wants a printed copy, it is easy to do. My compilations aren’t books in the traditional sense but I try to make them interesting for my reader. Many ways to get creative and make Legacy work for us. Thanks for sharing and please keep us posted on your progress as we all learn from each other. Mary From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Cynthia N. Russell Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2018 9:39 PM To: Cathy Pinner Cc: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Book Publishing - Ancestor Book, just beginning Thank you Leon and Cathy for your suggestions. I will give a try to each of them to see what I like best. I am familiar with all of the Legacy reports, but I want to do the writing and sentences myself, so the Legacy Event SEntence formats will not be of use to me. I am a rather creative writer . . . I was hoping for a blank page upon which I would write in paragraphs and be able to number the footnotes for each chapter section. For example, I am going to start with: Military - the Revolutionary War my footnotes would be M.1 for Military, number 1, etc. Migration - Scotland to County Tyrone, Ireland (another chapter), notes would be M.1 Migration - County Tyrone, Ireland to Bucks County, Pennsylvania, notes would be M.2 etc. Over the years I have sourced my findings, but the format has varied as I have learned different things and I would like the footnotes to be consistent and correct for today's format. Even this wee discussion is helping me to think through my organization. I may only do two generations for this report as my patriot, Francis Fergus (1752-1841) and his wife had 9 children. One daughter died after her daughter was born, and the daughter did not reach full age, so no further ancestors from that line. But the other 8 have carried the line forward, and, I am in contact with descendants of ALL 8 children via e-mail, telephone, and mail! I know that is quite unusual, but that's what I've done. My genealogy start began with my high school English teacher who had assigned writing a paper about my heritage . . . my mother, also a teacher told me that I would need to get on the elevated to Chicago and go to the Newberry Library where I would find books about my family . . . and I went and I did. When I found my name in one of the books, I was 'hooked'. Nothing more until I had my own children and decided to help input information into the supplements. After traveling to Scotland and Ireland to walk the family lands, I decided to update the books my cousins had begun 90 years prior. I inherited about 2,300 names, all from my one patriot! I now have over 17,000 persons from that one patriot . . . descendants, spouses and children. Oh, yes, it has been a journey. About 10 years ago I joined the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) . . . now have 23 Revolutionary War Patriots, one being a woman! Can you tell, I like to write, as I speak? I'll give your suggestions my best efforts and may I keep in touch, questioning, reporting, etc.? G'night,
Cynthia Dodd Nichols Russell great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co Tyrone, IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783 Pennsylvania/USA -1855 Ohio/USA The Village at Bay Ridge, 3950 Scenic Ridge Drive, #317, Traverse City, MI (Michigan) 49684/USA, phone 231.463.4343 FaceBook: Cynthia Nichols Russell [email protected] On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Cathy Pinner <[email protected]> wrote: Cynthia N. Russell, It sounds like you'll want to make use of some Legacy Reports and edit them yourself in Word. So experiment with the Legacy Report Options and save them to RTF (Rich Text format) for opening in your Word Processor. If your sources have been entered in Legacy as Sources then the RTF will include the sources though in an RTF you can add more. Note Legacy has the Publishing Centre where you can combine a number of Legacy reports and add Special text chapters and/or leave pages for text you've developed in Word. Note Options - Customise 7.9 relates to sources in RTF output and in the Report Options there are options for pictures in RTF output. I think you need to choose the RTF output before clicking on Report Options button for these to become active. How useful the RTF Report will be depends a lot on how you've been entering the data and what attention you've paid to Event Sentence Definitions and using the occasional Sentence Override for Events. If you haven't been checking output over the 30 years of collecting, it may not be much use and you may only want to incorporate reports with minimum options. If you've been paying attention to output people can get amazingly polished results, including using the new Story features in Legacy 9. If you have been sourcing in Legacy but decide to do all your writing in Word, then you can copy and paste Sources from the Assigned Sources page. Highlight the source citation you want and copy from the Preview pane at the bottom of the Assigned Sources screen. Note the radio buttons so you can show as it would Print rather than all details. Hope that helps, Cathy Cynthia N. Russell wrote: Hoping someone will be able to assist me as I begin to write my first Legacy Ancestor Book. I have been researching for over 30 years and, I am now ready to get started with all of the sourced information I have accumlated both throughout the United States and abroad. My book will have various sections and I would like to begin and sourcing my patriot's Revolutionary War service. Not sure how to do footnotes for the passages I want to copy directly. I am a retired English teacher, so I am not asking how to do footnotes. I want to know if I should do my written portions in a Word document . . . and do I do my footnotes at the same time? Or is there a format within Legacy to accomplish that? Keeping my fingers crossed to find a patient, kind and knowledgeable person to assist me in answering my questions. I am not in any hurry to receive an answer, as I have a lot to accomplish, but, I also know that beginning correctly will enhance my willingness to continue to completion. Thanking you in advance for ready my request, Cynthia D . Russell great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Francis FERGUS 1752 Co Tyrone, IRE-1841 Tennessee/USA great-great-great-granddaughter of General James FERGUS 1783 Pennsylvania/USA -1855 Ohio/USA [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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