The obit itself would be VERY out of place in marriage notes.
I put it in the Master Source Text to print out only the first time the Master Source is used - that's assuming you made the Obit a Master Source.
I also put the obit text in General Notes or in an Event named Obituary if it is well written and gave lots of information about the person's life that I hadn't recorded in other ways. If it isn't well written, I rewrite relevant sections in General Notes and source my comments to the obituary. To source parts of General Notes you need to put a note within the General Note giving an understandable short title for the source as well as attaching the source to the General Notes.
If you use Legacy Sources correctly, you shouldn't end up with the situation that frustrated Elizabeth. You may get multiple copies of the text in a Gedcom. I'm not sufficiently familiar with Gedcom structure. However you won't get multiple copies in Legacy reports.
To me a Wall Chart almost by definition doesn't have Sources. It's a graphical representation of relationships. Details are found in other Reports with sources for those interested.
I can't see where real sources would fit on a wall chart.
Which program produces Wall Charts with sources?
Cathy At 04:44 4/05/2005, you wrote:
> member's birth, marriage or death date. It took weeks to move one copy of > each interesting citation to marriage notes to be kept in the GEDCOM import > and included in a Legacy book report. >
Elizabeth, do you mean if I have an obituary that gives information for several events, I would create a Master Source citing that obit, but quote the text of the obit (or load an image of the scanned obit) in the marriage notes instead of in the Source or Source Detail? For unknown newspapers, I might use say: "Doe, Jane: Obituary" in the master source, note the missing information under "publication" info and the repository as my own files? The text wouldn't be in any source or source detail, but under "notes?"
If there will be only one entry of a Master Source I would still enter the text or image under a note for the individual to remain consistent?
>>I like to view non-Legacy wall charts with multiple sources for events that have conflicting dates or locations.<<
Do you use other programs to print out non-Legacy wall charts?
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