I am currently trying to convert my genealogy files from another software
base, and find that it can be rather difficult. This note addresses one of
the problems.
I have access to collections of materials relative to my research. These
fall into two broad categories:
1. An individual that I am researching has accumulated a number of
items (prayer cards for other individuals, wedding invitations, etc.) that I
would like to reference in my reports.
2. Some third party (like a historical society, genealogical society or
a professional genealogist) has accumulated materials of this sort, and I
have access to those materials. For example, there may be a clipping file
that does not identify the original newspaper from which the clippings come.
If I had access to the template mechanism in Legacy, I could image that I
could create an appropriate "Private Papers" source type, and get the right
thing. I have tried to figure out some way to bend one of the standard forms
to deal with type 1 collections, which are more pressing at this point. I
thought briefly that I could say that the collection was actually a
"Letter," but that doesn't work because the mechanism doesn't seem to handle
detail references correctly.
To make it clear what is going on, I have in my ABC collection a prayer card
for John Smith that bears the date 17 Jan 1954. If I make ABC a "Letter,"
generated by Arnold B. Chester, call it "Document Collection" and put the
prayer card info in the "Notes" part of the reference and say include that
in the report, I get a first footnote that looks like:
Arnold B. Chester Document Collection prayer card 17 Jan 1954,
John Smith, held by Woznick.
The second reference is then.
Arnold B. Chester.
The prayer card, its date, and anything else it might say has vanished.
I don't want to create a separate source for each of these items. Even if I
did, I am not sure what kind of source they might be.
Any suggestions?
Ben Woznick
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