I've been using Intellishare to collaborate with other researchers. I am finding that I first have to convince people to use Legacy, at which I have been successful. The hard part for me has been teaching them how to use Legacy to communicate research findings. I find that your average person would just rather type in names and dates than cite sources. And then when I finally convince them that the source of the information is important, their use of Legacy's source and event functionality is random.
The current solution to your problem might be to just have the people you collaborate with type their research results into the general notes fields. You can then merge their changes, read their notes, and add or modify source data as necessary. If they did not give you all of the possible pertinent information for a source, you can always send them an email to get the data to fill in the spaces. This method also ensures that the source data is entered and linked in a consistent manner, because it is being done by only one person, you. For example, I link all my sources to events, to AKA names, AND to child-parent realtionships for ALL individuals identified in a source. I also have a very specific use of the source detail window. I do not use it to record information of a source that is common to all individuals in the source, because if I have to change this information, I can't do a global update. I only use the source detail to rate the reliability of the source as it pertains to the individual it is being linked to. I have less work to do if I do all the source creating and linking than if I have to go back and clean up someone elses created sources and links. If you are collaborating through the assignment of ancestral lines (i.e. "you do that ancestral line and I'll do this ancestral line"), it is easier to just make a separate file for each ancestral line, copy, zip, and email it to the person who will be working it than to produce an Intellishare export from a master file. So when you get the new updated file back from the person that you are collaborating with, you just move the old file to an "old file" folder and start using the new one, no need for Intellishare merging. This approach also sets up a "fire wall" between the ancestral lines being researched so that if one file becomes corrupted or the data becomes skewed in some way, it will not impact the thousands of other indivudals in the other ancestral lines. Lee -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lisa Young Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LegacyUG] Intellishare and sources. I have finally gotten around to looking at using Intellishare. But the problem I have is that it shows you people who have changed, but not sources that have changed. Am I missing it or is there no way to know what sources have been changed without going through the master sources list one by one looking for duplicate Source List Names? It would be awfully nice if sources with the same Source List Names, but differences in, say, text or other fields like publication info, were presented for possible merging just as people are. Without that ability, Intellishare becomes not so attractive to use, as I'll spend plenty of time manually cleaning up sources every time. One way to do it would be if events would just be listed as different if their sources don't match exactly, but I'd settle for just having a source merge follow the people merge. I'm not talking about differences in source citation, just differences in the master source. Although, it seems like if Intellishare will show events as different if their attached Master Sources are different, it could also show them as different if their citations were different too. Maybe if Intellishare did a source merge *first*, showing you all Master Sources with the same Source List Name but differences elsewhere in the source record, it would then mean many fewer differences showing up in the people merge (only citation differences would show up at that point). Lisa Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
