Try using the Basic Source. You can have the following: Source List Name: Source title that you see in index of sources Type: Book, Deed, Poem, etc Author: whoever Title: Source title that prints in reports (normally, the same as Source List Name) Publication Facts: Enter any text you want here – your poems. Record Date: your record date or the date of source/event
Using the TABs, you can also add Text of Source, Comments, Repository and Media. All of these Source fields are free form text fields, so you can enter anything you like to tailor your source. Another thing you could possible use is Stories for an individual. If a person wrote a poem, then you can document that using a Story for each poem with a Title, a date, a place and the story, and a picture if you have one. ++++++++++++++++++ Leon Chapman [email protected] Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 1:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Collections of private papers 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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