Hi Kay, You seem to be getting muddled between Sources and Events.
An Event is something that happened or a fact you wish to record. A Source is where you got that information.
You are right that you will probably add each census as a separate event to an individual or family/marriage. That's your choice. Legacy doesn't make it for you. You could just have one Census event and add the actual censuses to the Event notes. I prefer to have a separate event for each census as that shows at a glance whether I have found the person in every relevant census or not and shows more usefully in a Chronology Report.
You then Source that Census Event.
How you set up your Master Source is up to you.
I have a Master Source for each UK Census for when I've accessed the images. I have other Master Sources for each Census Transcription I consult. Transcriptions so often are full of errors. This morning I found Marylebone, Mexico! OK there was a line through the Middle part of Middlesex but ...
I know that those using US Census often have a separate Master Source for each State or each County.
The actual census image, unless you decide to make a Master Source for each Census Household (another alternative that some use), belongs with the Source Detail, not the Master Source.
I don't understand how you can move an image from NOTES to SOURCE. You can't attach an image to Legacy Notes. You can attach images to individual, marriage, standard BDM events and your own events.
Do you mean that some of the paths to your images were put in General Notes in the import?
If that's what you mean, you'll need to attach the image again in the correct spot.
If you mean the Source with image is attached to the Notes and you now want to attach it to an Event, you can copy an existing source (Master and all details) to the Source Clipboard (see the copy icon on the Assigned Sources screen bottom left) and then paste it with the Source Clipboard wherever you want on that Assigned Sources Screen or into someone else's Assigned Sources.
You can attach as many sources as you like to an event eg: birth: Family Tree from Joe Smith 1881 Census GRO index ... Birth Certificate
Hope that helps,
Cathy
PS: Please remember to trim your emails when replying. Only include what is necessary of old posts for your post to make sense.
At 09:56 9/03/2005, you wrote:
Rob, you are a life saver; you saved me hours of time with your instructions for changing the path to images. I changed every one of my old images in less than 10 minutes. I hadn't renamed any images so it was very smooth.
Now my next problem is to move the images from NOTES to a SOURCE; any short cuts for that? I've been testing a few census records in SOURCES and find that each new record opens another Picture Gallery. So I have a separate Gallery for 1850, 1960, 1970, etc. I must be doing something wrong, I thought my Legacy manual said I could have several SOURCES under one event. Now that I think about it ... I guess the program treats each census as a different event. Any ideas on this? Thanks, Kay
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