[snip] -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Sources By the way, Frank - if you're not using Sources I'd strongly recommend it. [snip] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------
I concur with Bob about using SOURCES, although the need for excruciating detail may not be as urgent as it once was. I may be stepping into deeper water than I realize, but I'm going to inject my two cents into this discussion even though I am a very recent convert to Legacy from PAF and just barely getting to know Legacy. However, it may be helpful to others to know that the reason I converted to Legacy is for its "SOURCE" features. The most recent version of PAF allowed for digital images to be attached to SOURCES which was very nice. However, you could neither zoom in on the image nor print it in a readable size. Legacy allows images to be attached to SOURCES; you can zoom in to examine closely; and the image can be printed. With an image of the SOURCE attached to the SOURCE, a person using this database in the future will not have to hope the document was translated accurately or go find the original document to make sure; it will be right there in the database; the person can decide for themselves if the SOURCE translation/transcript is acceptable. I began filming Latin, German and French microfilm records several years ago. Translations of foreign records are always suspect. The digital microfilm records are very readable, in fact you can often improve the quality of a record in a graphics program. Importing the PAF database into LEGACY went very well, but now I have a monumental task of assigning the images. I have 6000+ in my database and hundreds of images; I'll have to live another hundred years to complete the project, but I'm going to try. The path to the images imported from PAF pointed to the PAF directory; I need to change the address. Legacy shows the old path so it's easy to see the name of the file, but it's a bit time consuming to change it to a new subdirectory under Legacy. For anyone considering using digital images I should warn you that you need to really give thought to how you organize your images and how you name them. I learned the hard way the first time I moved my database from my desktop computer to my laptop ... the paths must be the same. At first I had all the images under one subdirectory named "Images" under the PAF directory. Well it didn't take long to realize that was not going to work. I now have several subdirectories under images ... Census, Vital, People photos, Place photos, Military, Maps, Cemeteries, etc. I'm starting my conversion to Legacy with US Census records that originally came from Heritage Quest and Family Search sites. After I get the copy of the full page in my graphics program (Paint Shop Pro 8), I draw a red arrow on the page pointing to the subject. Sometimes I add other info right on the page to clarify the SOURCE. I also try to remember to add the microfilm number to microfilm vital records. I name the census records in this way: Keating 1850 James.jpg Keating 1850 Michael.jpg Keating 1860 James.jpg Keating 1870 James.jpg, etc. There may be a better way, but these will at least sort on the surname. Enough of my two cents, Kay Keating 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
